DRUG BUST GONE WRONG

Three Kansas City Cops Shot After Undercover Sting Goes Awry

Authorities said “three or four” suspects were also injured in the gunfire.

A shootout during an attempted drug bust in Kansas City, Missouri, sent three cops to the hospital with serious injuries Wednesday afternoon, said the city’s police chief, Karl Oakman. He said suspects opened fire on the officers from a car as they attempted to make an arrest stemming from an “undercover fentanyl investigation.” Gunfire broke out just as the plainclothes officers tried to buy fentanyl from a known seller in the city as part of a “long” and “far-reaching” probe, Oakman said. “I got down on the floor,” Gia Bleu, who was at a house across the street from the shooting, told the Kansas City Star. “It was very loud, it sounded like Grand Theft Auto, like the video game.” The drug bust-gone-wrong happened around 3 p.m. CT Wednesday, Oakman said, and miraculously all involved are expected to survive. It’s the second time this year a trio of Kansas City cops have been struck by gunfire during a single incident, with the first instance coming on Feb. 28 while cops executed a search warrant.