【超级生活网 sUperLIFE.ca专讯】据美媒报道，当地时间19日下午，美国堪萨斯州堪萨斯市的一名警员遭到枪击身亡。

据堪萨斯市警察局长齐格勒表示，警长罗伯特·弥尔顿于当地时间下午2点遭到枪击。弥尔顿随后被送医，但因伤重不治抢救无效死亡。

齐格勒表示，当时弥尔顿因接到“飞车枪击案”而出警，赶到现场后，嫌犯躲在车后向弥尔顿开火，弥尔顿因此受了重伤。

在此前的新闻发布会上，福克斯新闻记者曾质问警察局发言人，当时弥尔顿是否孤身出警。由于近段时间警民关系紧张，爆发多起枪杀警察事件，全美各地警察局纷纷提高戒备，要求警员结伴出警。

发言人表示当时弥尔顿是孤身一人，但是不能透露更多信息。当被问到这起案件是否与此前的枪杀警员案件有联系时，当局表示得出结论还为时尚早。

警方在新闻稿中说，警方赶到现场后，有3、4个人从一辆车中跳出逃跑，一名警察逮捕了一名嫌犯，第二名警察在和第二名嫌犯接触20分钟后遭到枪击。

目前此案仍然在调查之中。

Kansas police officer shot and killed responding to shooting report

A Kansas City, Kan. police officer was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon while responding to a reported drive-by shooting.

Officials said Capt. Robert David Melton, 46, was pronounced dead at University of Kansas Hospital at 2:55 p.m. local time.

Later Tuesday, authorities said the suspected shooter was caught about a block away from where Melton was shot. The suspect was being questioned along with a second person suspected in the initial drive-by. A third person who had been taken into custody was determined not to have been involved and was released, police said.

“There’s a lot of pain and brokenness in our community and our nation right now, and we just want to ask everyone to be prayerful and thoughtful right now,” Mayor Mark Holland of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County said.

Tuesday marked the second time this year that a Kansas City, Kan., police officer had been shot in the line of duty. Detective Brad Lancaster, 39, was shot and killed near Kansas Speedway during a violent crime spree on May 9. Melton had been part of the police honor guard at Lancaster’s funeral.

Chief Terry Zeigler tweeted news of the shooting just after 2 p.m.

Ida Ford, 87, was watching television in her two-story brick home when gunfire erupted just outside. Ford said she thought someone was knocking on her air conditioner until her son rushed downstairs and told her the three loud noises she had heard were gunshots. Ford said she looked through her window and saw the officer sprawled and unresponsive on the asphalt road in front of her home. She watched for a few minutes as paramedics worked on the officer.

“I’m just so sorry for his family,” she said.

The shooting happened after police responded to a report around 1:30 p.m. from a person who said several people in a car were firing shots. The suspect vehicle took off as police arrived, but it crashed into a fence and the occupants bailed out at 1:36 p.m., police spokesman Tom Tomasic said. Two people were taken into custody within three minutes of the wreck, he said.

About a half-hour after the initial call, Melton saw someone who matched the description of the third suspect about 20 blocks from the original scene and pulled up to them, police spokesman Tom Tomasic said. Before he could get out of his car, he was shot multiple times.

Tomasic told reporters it was too early to determine whether the shooting was linked to other attacks on police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge.

“As far as we know this started out as a crime that we were investigating, so to just say that he was shot for no reason, we don’t know that yet. We do believe that he was investigating a crime so he was out here doing his service.”

Tomasic went on to describe Melton as a “good friend, good person. [I] knew him well, worked with him everyday.”

Melton was a 17-year veteran of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department. According to his LinkedIn profile, he had also served in the Kansas Army National Guard and was deployed to Afghanistan from September 2010 to March 2012

Outside the hospital where Melton died, local Baptist preacher Jimmie Banks — a friend of the city’s mayor — sat dejected on a bench, head lowered, after attending the news conference announcing the officer’s passing. He said it was painful to sit in that room and see the grief-stricken faces.

“The contributions that peace officers make to protect and serve — they deserve better,” said Banks. “When they leave home, the family expects them to return. It’s shameful this has happened.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.