(Update 4:28 p.m. AP and POST) – A manhunt is over after officers shoot man who shot a Kansas City, Kan. detective.

The Kansas City Police Dept. tweeted shortly before 3 p.m. that an officer-involved shooting took place at Bannister and 71 Highway with the man believed to be the suspects in the shooting of the detective.  During that time 71 highway was closed at that location.

Police spokesman Patrick McCallop said earlier in the day that the detective was shot about 12:30 p.m. Monday after the detective, in an unmarked car, helped respond to a report of a suspicious person. McCallop said that’s when the man ran into a field and exchanged gunfire with the detective, wounding him at least twice.

McCallop said the shooter fled in the detective’s car, then carjacked a vehicle with two children inside. That vehicle later was found in nearby Basehor, and the children were unharmed.

The Kansas City Star is reporting that the detective has died at the hospital several hours after being shot.  The suspect was reported by the Star to be in stable condition.

As more information becomes available we will update.

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (2 p.m. AP) — Kansas City, Kansas, police say one of the department’s detectives was shot and wounded near the Kansas Speedway by a suspect who later fled the scene.

Police Chief Terry Ziegler says the shooting took place about 12:30 p.m. Monday. Ziegler says the detective later was in surgery, though his medical status was not immediately clear.

It was not immediately clear what led to the shooting.

The FBI and the Missouri State Highway Patrol say they are assisting in the investigation, though they deferred questions about the matter to Kansas City, Kansas, police.

The KCK police department posted a photo of Curtis Ayers on Facebook as an attempt to locate in connection with the investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call 816-474-TIPS or KCKPD.

KCKPD also said the person of interest in the officer shooting was last seen in Basehor, Kan. in a Silver 2015 Ford Focus.  It said the individual is armed and dangerous.

(AP and POST)