Authorities: Kansas officer’s shooting death not an ambush

A top Republican lawmaker from Kansas blamed President Obama for fueling the recent outbreak in violence against police officers just after a Kansas City, Kan. cop was gunned down by a drive-by shooting suspect.

Robert Melton, 46, was shot to death while assisting fellow officers after a reported drive-by shooting and chase. Two suspects are in custody but formal charges haven’t been filed.

Capt. Robert Melton was shot multiple times Tuesday afternoon while searching for a drive-by shooting suspect, and died at a hospital shortly after. He also wanted everyone to remember Officer Brad Lancaster who died May 9th near Kansas Speedway.

(Holland) “Two criminals in two months will not undo 20 years of successful partnership between our police and our community”.

“We just want to ask for the thoughts and prayers for Capt. Melton’s family, and for our entire police department right now, and for our community”, Kansas City Mayor Mark Holland said.

Tonya J. Powers, FOX News. “The hate and anti-police speech has got to stop because the consequences are real”, said Zeigler, who paused briefly to compose himself at the news conference.

Police and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives returned to the scene Wednesday to look for bullet casings and other evidence.

Wagle cited Obama’s public comments about shootings by police in Minnesota and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, which were followed by deadly attacks on officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

The mayor of Kansas City, Kansas, says authorities don’t believe the fatal shooting of an officer was part of a planned ambush, but someone trying to evade arrest. Melton boxed the suspect in using his patrol auto, and that’s when the shooting occurred. “At the time of the shooting, Capt. Melton was trying to exit his patrol auto to engage the suspect”.

The Kansas lawmaker said that Obama portrayed the police officers involved in those deaths as “people of bias”. A suspect in a drive-by shooting fatally shot Melton on July 19, 2016, as the officer was sitting in his patrol vehicle, police said.

Melton was a 17-year veteran of the police department.