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UPDATE: Some guests evacuated amid Kansas hotel standoff

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas, hotel standoff has ended with a suspect wounded after exchanging gunfire with police.

Police say the suspect had at least one gunshot wound and was taken away Friday morning in an ambulance.

 

Police Chief Terry Zeigler confirmed the arrest on social media.

 

Police responded around 12:30 a.m. to a disturbance in a room at the Hilton Garden. Police backed off after the man fired shots through the door of a hotel room, and the standoff began. Some hotel guests were evacuated and several streets around the hotel were blocked off.

No officers were hurt.

Police fired tear gas into one room-photo courtesy KCTV 5

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police have evacuated some guests at a Kansas City, Kansas, hotel after a man fired shots through the door of one of the rooms.

Police outside the hotel standoff-photo courtesy KCTV5

The Kansas City Star reports that police responded around 12:30 a.m. Friday to a disturbance in a room at the Hilton Garden. Police backed off after man fired shots through the door, and a standoff began.

Police say no officers were hurt. Streets around the hotel have been blocked off while police attempt to end the standoff.

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