UPDATE:  CLAY COUNTY, Mo. -Law enforcement authorities in Missouri say an arrest has been made in connection with the Saturday night shooting of a Pleasant Valley, Missouri police officer.

Two suspects, a man and woman, were taken into custody on Sunday morning in Kansas City, Kansas. The shooting remains under investigation. The injured officer remains hospitalized in serious condition.

Kansas City Police chief Forte reported via twitter that the Pleasant Valley Mayor said the officer is “alert, talking and surrounded by family and law enforcement officers from throughout Kansas City.

 

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On Saturday, December 13, 2014, at 11:30 pm, a Pleasant Valley Police Officer initiated a traffic stop on a passenger vehicle on southbound Interstate 35 just north of Interstate 435.  When the suspect vehicle pulled to the shoulder the driver immediately exited his vehicle and began shooting towards the Pleasant Valley officer.  The officer was struck in the face from one of the rounds.  The suspect then fled the scene in his vehicle.  The vehicle was a described as a green Honda Accord, bearing Tennessee registration M1863K.  The highway patrol is currently looking for the vehicle and is asking anyone who has seen it to contact the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Troop A Headquarters at 816-622-0800.

The officer involved shooting is being investigated by the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s Division of Drug and Crime Control at the request of the Pleasant Valley Police Department.