4 federal agents shot, motel destroyed in Kansas

wyff4.com ^ | 4/24/2016 | Holly Yan and Joe Sutton

[rktman]

What started as a would-be arrest at a Kansas motel ended with four federal agents shot and the motel engulfed in flames.

Officers from the U.S. Marshals Service's Fugitive Task Forces were looking for a suspect Saturday night at the Country Club Motel, Topeka police Lt. Colleen Stuart said.

But when they reached the motel, someone opened fire and struck two U.S. marshals, an FBI agent and a fourth federal agent, Stuart said. It was not immediately clear which agency the fourth agent belonged to.

Their injuries are not considered life-threatening, Stuart said.

[Delta 21]

Pissing off more than one FedGov agency simultaneously is all but a sure bet of at least one building in the vicinity burning to the ground.

Glad they got their man.

[kitchen]

Like he did in Central Park?

[editor-surveyor]

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I see that the Amish are still spending time in tanning parlors...
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[editor-surveyor]

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Bad busts don’t often end with motels burning down.

My bet: Good bust, should have been years sooner.
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[editor-surveyor]

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Good body armor.

[DoughtyOne]

Perhaps so. If he’s on the run it may have been hard to find him.

We don’t know all of it.

Glad the wounded guys survived, but getting shot is horrible enough.

[batterycommander]

My guess a shotgun.

[IronJack]

Somebody check his DNA. I’m not even sure he qualifies as human.

[editor-surveyor]

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Who knows where they were hit.

Their lives could still be essentially destroyed.

Survival just means your heart is still pumping.

[Terry L Smith]

I wonder how many of those four, got their start at Waco?

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, I agree with that.

It always gets my goat when they talk about non-life threatening injuries.

Those could still mean severe disability or a career ending disability.

[PLMerite]

Is that Brian Williams in the lower right of the fire photo?

[Lurker]

Very young Tommy Lee Jones.

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[wintertime]

Ok....So the injuries are not life threatening but are they career ending?

It is amazing that in movies and TV a law officer has a shoulder blown away and is soon back on the job doing his job as always. In real life these injuries would end a career even if not life threatening.

[rktman]

And in the movies or tv there’s no, or rarely, any psych issues.