UPDATE: – 8 a.m. – (AP) – The victims and the suspect in the late Sunday night shooting rampage inside a Springfield Kum and Go have been identified.
Springfield police say Joaquin Roman, 31, crashed his car into the store just before midnight and then shot customers and an employee. When officers responded, Officer Christopher Walsh, 32, was killed and Officer Josiah Overton, 25, was hurt. Also killed were Kum and Go employee Troy Rapp, 57, along with Shannon Perkins, 46, and Matthew Hicks, 22, both of Springfield. Roman killed himself.
UPDATE: 8:50 a.m. – Police in Springfield have named the officer who succumbed to a fatal gunshot wound during a shooting incident Sunday night.
Police say, officer, Christopher Walsh, and Josiah Overton first responded to a shots fired call at a gas station. They were both fired upon, and injured. The suspect allegedly fired on himself, and died at the scene. Officer Walsh was pronounced deceased at an area hospital. Officer Overton sustained non-life threatening wounds. Three citizens were also killed, and have not been identified.
Police believe the shooter had also been involved in several other shooting incidents last night.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police say five people including an officer and a gunman are dead after a shooting at a gas station in Springfield, Missouri.
Police Chief Paul Williams said Monday morning the dead also include three citizens. Williams said police began receiving reports of someone firing shots from a car late Sunday. The car eventually crashed into a Kum & Go gas station and convenience store. Williams said the gunman entered the store and began shooting. Officers Christopher Walsh and Josiah Overton, who arrived at the store first, were shot. The chief says Walsh was killed and Overton suffered non-life threatening injuries. Other officers who entered the store found three people and the gunman dead.
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