KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A carjacking suspect and Kansas City, Missouri, police officers exchanged gunfire Wednesday afternoon. Police later arrested the suspect after a car chase across downtown on Interstate 70.
A police spokesperson told KSHB 41 that officers were sent at about 4 p.m. to East 11th Street and Elmwood Avenue on a report of a suspicious person.
That person was known to officers and believed to have been involved in a carjacking earlier in the day, the spokesperson said.
Officers found the man at East 9th Street and Van Brunt Boulevard, and officers and the suspect exchanged gunfire.
No officers or the suspect were hit by any of the bullets.
The suspect got into a car, drove away from the shooting scene and got onto westbound Interstate 70.
The chase ended with a crash at I-70 and I-35, according to the police spokesperson.
Officers arrested the suspect.
The westbound lanes of Interstate 70 were blocked while police investigated the crash and removed debris from the highway.
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