KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An officer was injured in a shooting at Kansas City International Airport, which officers said happened after a woman got out of handcuffs and stole their car.
The injured officer had been called to a report of a suspicious vehicle at the airport, and arrested the two people inside the car after a brief pursuit, KSHB reported. Lacy Perry and Kevin Bloom were both identified as being in the car and taken into custody.
A female officer handcuffed Perry and put her in the back of a patrol vehicle, before leaving her unattended and going to assist with Bloom’s arrest, according to court documents obtained by WDAF.
An officer then reported seeing Perry in the driver’s seat of a police cruiser, having somehow escaped from the handcuffs, KSHB reported. Perry allegedly began driving the police car in reverse, and officers said they heard her telling Bloom to run from the police and get into the cruiser.
The officers pulled their weapons and demanded Perry to stop the car and get out, but she refused, according to WDAF. The officers approached the car, and the female officers told investigators that Perry lunged for her gun as she and the other officer tried to pull Perry from the vehicle.
In court records obtained by WDAF, the female officer said that she heard a gunshot and then realized she’d been shot in the upper right thigh. Investigators have not said whose hands were on the gun when it fired.
“Regardless of how that weapon happened to go off, if it happens during a struggle, which we allege it did here, that’s a serious, serious crime,” Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd told WDAF. “We do everything we can to keep law enforcement officers safe and when somebody injures a law enforcement officer during the course of an arrest, we’re going to charge those people.”
Perry is charged with tampering with a motor vehicle, resisting arrest and disarming a peace officer or correctional officer. Bloom is charged with assault and resisting arrest, according to jail records.
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