Today's cop-killing

Another police officer was shot and killed today. This time it occurred in Kansas City, Kansas. Matt Campbell and Tony Rizzo report in the Kansas City Star that the officer killed was Captain Robert Melton.

Multiple suspects ran from the scene, according to police radio traffic.

Tuesday’s incident began with a report of a drive-by shooting about 1:30 p.m. at Second Street and Edgerton Driver near downtown Kansas City, Kan. at the Juniper Gardens public housing complex.

When police arrived, a vehicle containing the suspected shooter or shooters took off and there was a chase that ended near 22nd Street and Haskell Avenue about 3 miles away.

“As Capt. Melton was arriving the suspects fell from the vehicle and opened fire, striking Capt. Melton and fatally wounding him,” Kansas City, Kan., Police Chief Terry Zeigler, also speaking at the press conference, said.Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article90544392.html#storylink=cpy

I know this area, having worked there as Director of a Counseling Center in the 1960s. It is predominantly black.