KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers are investigating an officer-involved shooting Friday afternoon in unincorporated Jackson County.
A Highway Patrol spokesperson said a Grain Valley police officer shot and wounded a woman around 3 p.m. in the 1400 block of Green Forest Way.
The woman was taken to a nearby hospital. She underwent surgery and was in ICU, according to an update Friday night from law enforcement.
UPDATE
— MSHP Troop A (@MSHPTrooperA) December 14, 2019
The suspect involved in the shooting is out of surgery and in ICU.
MSHP DDCC investigators continue to exam evidence and conduct interviews. @gvpolice
The officer was not injured.
Investigators told 41 Action News on Friday evening that the person shot by police was an armed woman who led officers on a chase with a 2-year-old girl n the backseat after an assault at a local grocery store.
About an hour before the woman was shot, dispatchers received a report of an assault near Main and Jefferson streets in Grain Valley, according to MSHP.
Today at 2pm 911 calls were received of an aggravated assault near Main & Jefferson in Grain Valley. The suspect left the scene in a vehicle & was followed by a witness. @gvpolice intercepted the suspect & a pursuit ensued....
— MSHP Troop A (@MSHPTrooperA) December 13, 2019
A woman was seen ramming another vehicle with her car near the Price Chopper before exiting the vehicle and assaulting the person in the vehicle she was ramming.
"It looked like there was a car accident," Brandon Borgman said. "This lady just rocketed out of her car, and was extremely irate and and yelling, and started striking the man. (She) continued yelling at him, got back in her car, backed up and took off down Buckner Tarsney."
Borgan followed the suspect from near the Price Chopper, which is located just north of Interstate 70 interchange with Buckner-Tarsney, and called police.
"You're not supposed to do stuff like that. Period," he said. "I am a business owner (Show-Me Hydro) in that area, and if something happened like that to one of my friends or family, I would appreciate somebody to do the same."
Grain Valley police intercepted the suspect, who refused to stop a short distance later. Officers initiated a low-speed police chase along Buckner-Tarsney Road.
“I heard the sirens and I could tell it was a lot of sirens ...,” Melanie Wolf, who witnessed the police chase said. “I looked up and a black dark blue car was just driving the normal speed, kind of slow, and there were three Grain Valley police right behind her.”
Eventually, the woman stopped at a house and got out of the car, allegedly with a gun.
MSHP said, at that point, shots were fired and the woman was the only person struck.
The spokesperson did not know if the woman fired shots at officers.
This is a developing story and will be updated.