Appanoose County, IA- The Appanoose County Sheriff's Office says a Missouri murder suspect was tracked to Iowa overnight. Radio Iowa reports that Appanoose County Sheriff Gary Anderson says his office was notified by the Kansas City Career Criminal Task Force that a Missouri man wanted in a recent homicide in Kansas City was tracked to Centerville. Authorities from Iowa and Missouri converged in a Walmart parking lot at 2:30 a.m. Officials were unsuccessful in getting the suspect to surrender and while giving orders to him, a single gunshot was heard from the vehicle. The suspect was transported to the hospital and pronounced dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The identity of the suspect has been withheld, pending family notification.
A Missouri man wanted in connection to a Kansas City homicide case shot himself in the parking lot of a Centerville Walmart early Tuesday morning as officers tried to arrest him, officials said.
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