Police shot and killed a man in Kansas City on Sunday after a series of running street shootouts that saw three officers wounded and hospitalised.
According to authorities, undercover officers were following a person of interest in the murder of a university student when he suddenly and unexpectedly fired on them with a rifle.
The suspect then fled from a home where he'd been hiding and traded fire with police, before being shot and taken into custody.
He was later declared dead by the Kansas City Fire Department.