KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a police detective in Kansas City, Kansas (all times local):
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A Kansas man is charged with capital murder in the shooting death of a police detective during a confrontation that ended when the defendant was shot by officers in Missouri.
Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome Gorman announced the charges Wednesday against 28-year-old Curtis Ayers, of Tonganoxie.
Authorities allege Ayers fatally shot Kansas City, Kansas, Detective Brad Lancaster, on Monday as he responded to a suspicious person report near the Kansas Speedway.
Ayers also is charged with two counts of aggravated robbery, two counts of aggravated burglary, two counts of kidnapping, and one count each of aggravated battery and criminal possession of a firearm.
He was arrested in Kansas City, Missouri, after he wrecked a car and was shot by officers. Jackson County, Missouri, officials charged Ayers with seven counts Tuesday.
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9 a.m.
A spokesman for the Kansas Racing and Gaming Commission says a man accused of gunning down a Kansas City, Kansas, police detective was ordered to leave the Hollywood Casino parking lot prior to the fatal shooting.
Commission spokesman Fred Waller says Curtis Ayers was loitering outside the casino near Kansas Speedway on Monday when a security agent ordered him to leave. Waller says Ayers was told he would be arrested for trespassing if he returned.
Waller says Ayers’ name and birth date were reported to Kansas City, Kansas, police, which is normal procedure in such cases.
The 28-year-old is accused of fatally shooting detective Brad Lancaster, who responded to the suspicious person report.
Ayers was expected to be charged in Wyandotte County on Wednesday for Lancaster’s death.
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2 a.m.
A suspect in the shooting death of a Kansas police detective is facing more charges.
Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome Gorman scheduled a news conference Wednesday to announce charges against 28-year-old Curtis Ayers, of Tonganoxie, Kansas.
Ayers is suspected in the killing of Kansas City, Kansas, Detective Brad Lancaster, who died at a hospital Monday about three hours after being shot during a confrontation near a racetrack.
Kansas authorities have alleged Ayers fled in Lancaster’s car, then carjacked another vehicle with two children inside. He is accused of abandoning that vehicle, leaving the children unharmed, and taking another car. Authorities say he wrecked that car in Kansas City, Missouri, and was shot by officers there.
Ayers was charged Tuesday in Jackson County, Missouri, with seven counts arising from that confrontation.