Man shot in confrontation with trooper

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Updated at 3:05 p.m. Monday.

A man who earlier had held a woman at gunpoint near Ridgeway was shot Monday morning when he exchanged gunfire with a highway patrolman north of Pattonsburg.

Sheriff Josh Eckerson said a man and woman pulled off Interstate-35 at the Ridgeway exit at about 10:46 a.m. Tuesday and forced their way into a home in an apparent robbery attempt. The couple briefly held the occupant of the home at gunpoint. The couple left the scene and fled south on I-35. The sheriff’s department broadcast a description of the vehicle.

Highway Patrol officers located the car a few minutes later off I-35 at the junction of Route N and Highway 69 where the vehicle had crashed into a ditch.

The male suspect abandoned the car and fled into a pasture west of the highway where he began firing at a trooper. The suspect received a gunshot wound to the abdomen in the exchange, but the trooper was not hit. The woman also jumped out of the car but was taken into custody without incident.

A Lifeflight helicopter picked up the wounded man from the pasture and flew him to a Kansas City hospital.

No information was available on the condition of the suspect.

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