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A Kansas City, Kansas, Police Officer Has Died After Being Struck by a Fleeing Driver

Officer Hunter Simoncic, 26, died after suspect Dennis Mitchell III intentionally struck him during a pursuit involving stolen vehicles and multiple criminal charges, police said.

  • On Aug. 26, Officer Hunter Simoncic, 26, from the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, was struck and later died after officers responded to shots fired near the 7700 block of Everett Avenue.
  • Police were sent to a shots-fired report near the 7700 block of Everett Avenue at about 12:30 a.m., prompting a chase after officers found an apparently unconscious driver who fled, abandoned a truck, and entered another stashed in the woods.
  • Authorities arrested Dennis Mitchell III, 31, after he crashed a stolen truck near the 6400 block of Kaw Drive about 12:55 a.m., charging him with first-degree murder and related offenses.
  • Kansas City, Kansas Police Chief Karl Oakman called the act intentional, saying `This was a situation that we do across the metro thousands of times a year, deploying stop sticks, and this individual felt the need to run Hunter down and kill him`; the Wyandotte County community mourns Officer Hunter Simoncic, the second law-enforcement fatality Tuesday, survived by his mother, father, and brother.
  • The KBI is investigating the pursuit and will present findings to the Wyandotte County DA; Simoncic served nearly 2 years and mentored children in local schools.
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