Shooting kills officer and wounds shooter

Police search for shooter on the loose

ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI  A shooting rampage killed a police officer and the gunman and injured three others near 22^nd and Frederick Streets in St. Joseph yesterday.

Officers were alarmed after the shooter struck and shot the other officer. 

Police officer Bradley Arn, who was responding to the scene, was killed when bullets hit his back window seven times, striking him in the back of the head and killing him.

Another officer was on the scene and shot the gunman. (Name of the cop unknown) 

Before his death, Officer Arn reported the shooting to other police and seven shots hit the police car and the deadly bullet hit the back of his head killing him. 

The gunman, William E. Lattin Jr. was seen on Frederick Street when the shot fired. He was wearing camouflage and backpack, had a Mohawk, had a knife attached to his belt and gun on him. {Police states}

This was the first mass shooting in St. Joseph history according to police. {Sidebar: The last officer shot in the line of duty was in 1944, and the last officer killed was in 1991.}  

Witnesses said that they could hear the shots down Frederick Street but couldn’t identify it clearly. 

George McFeat was driving on the road beside his girlfriend behind the police officer who was killed. “I heard the shot and saw the police officer slump to the left. He probably hit the accelerator because he hit a boat.  {Sidebar: Witness stated that when he pulled out of the store, he let the police officer pass and heard the shot and saw the police officer slump to the left.}

Another witness, Roger Liberty a nearby resident said, “I heard gun shots and hung up the phone. In the back ally, I saw an averaged sized man with a Mohawk in the yard who was shooting down the street with an assault rifle.” 

The Funeral will be held at 501 Faraon St., to Savannah, Mo., which was Arn's hometown.

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