UPDATE:  CLAY COUNTY, Mo. -Law enforcement authorities in Missouri say an arrest has been made in connection with the Saturday night shooting of a Pleasant Valley, Missouri police officer.

Two suspects were taken into custody on Sunday morning. The shooting remains under investigation. The injured officer remains hospitalized in serious condition.

 

 

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CLAY COUNTY, Mo. — Law enforcement officers in Kansas and Missouri are involved in the search for a suspect who shot a police officer in Missouri on Saturday night just after 11:30 p.m.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported in a media release a Pleasant Valley Missouri Police Officer initiated a traffic stop on a passenger vehicle on southbound Interstate 35 just north of Interstate 435.

When the suspect vehicle pulled to the shoulder the driver immediately exited his vehicle and began shooting towards the Pleasant Valley officer.

The officer was struck in the face from one of the rounds. The suspect then fled the scene in his vehicle. The vehicle is described as a green Honda Accord, bearing Tennessee registration M1863K.

The highway patrol is currently looking for the vehicle and is asking anyone who has seen it to contact the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Troop A Headquarters at 816-622-0800.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control are investigating the officer involved shooting at the request of the Pleasant Valley Police Department.