by Randy Picking ~ Salina Post

A Salina Police Officer who was shot in the face while looking for a suspect in a stolen car for a civil case late Thursday night has lost his right eye.

Deputy Police Chief Carson Mansfield gave an update Monday morning on the condition of 38 year old Chuck Huen, a 10 year veteran of the police Department.

Mansfield said the suspect, 19 year old Marijon Gadson, fired shots from the basement, went through a wall and door, and struck Huen in the right eye with the bullet from a medium caliber handgun that exited from his right ear.

Huen, who was discharged from the hospital in Oklahoma City Saturday will have to have more surgery to repair damage from being shot, and he has lost the use of his eye.

Mansfield says the Kansas Bureau Of Investigation continues their investigation, and Gadson took his own life, shortly after officers exited the home at 308 N. 13th after Huen was shot. Mansfield says Gadson may have fired his gun a half dozen times.