LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an officer has shot and killed a suspect in northeast Kansas while investigating a vehicle theft.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation identified the man killed as 47-year-old Antonio Garcia Jr. of Leavenworth. The release said the officer fired at Garcia on Tuesday night after an “altercation” and that he was pronounced dead after emergency responders were called to the scene. A woman was arrested during the investigation on suspicion of interfering with law enforcement, criminal damage to property and concealing, destroying or altering evidence.

Leavenworth police Chief Patrick Kitchens said the officer was at the scene about 10 minutes before reporting that shots had been fired. The officer wasn’t hurt. Neither Kitchens nor the KBI offered any other details about what led up to the shooting.

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LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Police say a northeast Kansas officer has shot and killed a suspect while investigating a vehicle theft.

The Kansas City Star reports that the shooting happened Tuesday night in Leavenworth. Police Chief Patrick Kitchens says the officer reported the shooting shortly after arriving to investigate the stolen vehicle.

Police have asked the Kansas Bureau of Investigation to review the shooting, as is standard procedure. No other details were immediately released. Police didn’t immediately return a phone message from The Associated Press.

By STEPHEN KORANDA

Kansans who registered to vote at the DMV or otherwise used the federal voter registration form are eligible to vote in all races, according to court rulings, whether they’ve provided a citizenship document or not. But those voters might be confused by inconsistencies on Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s website.

As of Tuesday, the deadline to register to vote for the primary elections on Aug. 1, the website contained conflicting information on the Kansas proof-of-citizenship rule.

In accordance with a federal court order issued last October, some parts of the KSSOS.org site, and associated state websites, have been updated. The new language clarifies that voters using the federal registration form aren’t currently subject to the proof-of-citizenship rule and can vote in all races.

However, as of Tuesday, a frequently asked questions section of the secretary of state website still reads:

“If you are a new Kansas voter on and after January 1, 2013, include your U.S. citizenship document regardless of which application form you use… If you use the federal form and you do not provide a citizenship document, then you will be registered to vote only for federal offices and not for state and local elections.”

“FAQs are intended to be sources of quick information for voters,” says Mark Johnson, an attorney working on one of the lawsuits challenging Kansas voting rules. “This information is inaccurate. At best, it’s misleading.”

There’s been a lot of legal wrangling when it comes to the requirement that people registering to vote for the first time in Kansas prove their citizenship with a document such as a birth certificate or passport.

As it sits now, people who register with the state form are subject to the proof-of-citizenship requirement. But under court rulings currently in effect, people using the federal voter registration form, including thousands who registered at the DMV, aren’t subject to the rule.

When federal rulings said the state couldn’t impose the citizenship requirement on federal form registrants, Kobach instituted a dual-tiered voting system.

The guidelines said people using the federal form who had not provided proof-of-citizenship would only have their votes counted in federal races. That system was later knocked down by a judge in Shawnee County before the 2016 primaries.

Johnson says he believes the FAQ should be changed “immediately,” noting that it’s been almost a year since that Shawnee County ruling.

“When potential voters don’t understand whether they can vote or not, they tend not to show up. When there’s voter confusion, there’s voter suppression,” says Johnson.

Notices on receipts for voters registering at the DMV had the wrong information up through the registration deadline ahead of the general elections last November.

Kansas Public Radio contacted Kobach’s office about the persisting discrepancies Monday. Spokesperson Samantha Poetter initially said the office would respond to questions about the language on the site, but hadn’t by Tuesday afternoon.

Kobach pushed for the proof-of-citizenship requirements and has defended them as a way to prevent voter fraud.

“Every time a non-citizen votes in an election, not only does it potentially swing that election if it’s close, it cancels out the vote of a U.S. citizen,” Kobach said in an interview last year.

Critics of the Kansas voter registration policies have said voter fraud is rare and the rules are preventing eligible voters from casting ballots.

Kobach is now taking his efforts to the national level. He’s vice chair of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity created by President Donald Trump to study improper registration and voter fraud. The panel has attracted criticism and lawsuits, some of that prompted by a request from Kobach that states turn over voter information.

Stephen Koranda is Statehouse reporter for Kansas Public Radio, a partner in the Kansas News Service.

DAVIS, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say two people were struck and killed while changing a vehicle’s tire along an interstate in southern Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the deadly collision happened Tuesday afternoon on Interstate 35 near Davis, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City. According to a preliminary report, the car with a flat tire was parked on the shoulder of the northbound I-35 lanes, partially blocking the inside lane of traffic.

The highway patrol says a 17-year-old boy from Killeen, Texas, was struck and killed by an oncoming SUV, as was 47-year-old Shane Miller of Hutchinson, Kansas. Both were changing the car’s flat tire when they were hit.

The driver of the SUV suffered an arm injury and was treated and released from a nearby hospital.

COLDWATER, Kan. (AP) — A western Kansas man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in a fatal shooting.

The Kansas attorney general’s office said in a news release that the sentence was imposed Tuesday for 44-year-old Frank Domingo Asebedo, of Coldwater. He pleaded no contest in March to second-degree reckless murder in the October 2015 killing of 43-year-old Lelyn Betts in Comanche County.

Asebedo was arrested five days later in the town of Protection. Asebedo has prior convictions for aggravated assault and drug possession out of Ford County.

PAWNEE COUNTY- A Kansas man was found guilty Tuesday of felony criminal threat and misdemeanor disorderly conduct.

During the one-day trial in Pawnee County District Court, the mother of Matthew Sexton, 45, Larned, testified that in November of 2016 she had allowed Sexton to stay with her at her Larned home. During that time, she also confronted her son about not being comfortable with him babysitting an underage girl in her home, according to a media release.

She told the court he became enraged and made statements to her about choking her to death and burning her house down.

The jury made up of seven women and five men deliberated for approximately 15 minutes before returning guilty verdicts.

Sentencing is scheduled for August 24. The defendant remains free on bond.

Sexton faces between 5 and 17 months in the custody of the Department of Corrections, according to the Pawnee County District Attorney.  He has a dozen previous convictions for drugs, forgery, theft and burglary in Pawnee, Barton and Edwards County, according to the Kansas Department of Corrections.