Kansas City Police officer killed in line identified as an Omaha native
Updated: 11:02 PM CST February 17, 2023
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AT TEN. HE WAS AN OMAHA ORIGINAL WHO SERVED AND PROTECTED KANSAS CITY FOR NEARLY 20 YEARS. POLICE SAY A DRIVER RUNED RED LIGHT AND KILLED HIM. GOOD EVENING. I AM QUANECIA FRASER. OFFICER JAMES MOE BAUER LEAVES WIFE AND TEN YEAR OLD CHILD. WEDNESDAY NIGHT A DRIVER BANGS INTO HIS PATROL CAR. ITS K-9 CHAMPION ALSO DIED ALONG WITH A PEDESTRIAN. TONIGHT WE HAD THE CHANCE TO TALK TO MO BAUER’S FATHER. THROUGH THEIR PAIN, SAY THEY WERE TOUCHED WITH ALL THE SUPPORT AFTER JAMES MOLL BAUER AND HIS CANINES WERE SHOCKED BY A SUSPECT WHO RAN A RED LIGHT. FERN MO BAUER GETTING READY TO REST HIS SON. I FEEL IMMENSE PRIDE, YOU KNOW. JIM WAS A GREAT SON, A GREAT FATHER, A GREAT POLICE OFFICER. JAMES, WHO WENT TO JIM, IS A NEBRASKA NATIVE WHO GRADUATED FROM OMAHA. BRIAN HIGH SCHOOL. HE PLAYED SOME BASEBALL, MAINLY. IT JUST CLUBED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. HIS FATHER SAYS HE JOINED THE KANSAS CITY POLICE FORCE IN 2003. REMEMBERS THE TIME HIS SON CATCHED A HUNGER CRIMINAL ACCUSED OF KILLING FIVE PEOPLE SOON IN HIS 20-YEAR CAREER. WELL, THE BOY WAS A PRETTY DANGEROUS CHARACTER. AND THEN SOMETHING HE HAS NOT BOASTED ABOUT. BUT, YOU KNOW, HE WAS PROUD OF IT. AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR CAPTURING THIS GUY. VERNE SAYS HE HAD JUST HAD HOLIDAYS WITH JIM, ALONG WITH JIM’S WIFE AND SON. ALL LAST WEEK WE TOOK A TRIP TO HAWAII. SO HIS MOTHER AND I, TOGETHER WITH HIM, HIS WIFE AND SON, WENT TO HAWAII. SO WE REALLY HAD FUN. HE IS GRATEFUL TO HAVE THAT MEMORY TO CARE. I AM SO GRATEFUL THAT WE SPENDED THAT TIME TOGETHER. AND HE IS FOREVER PROUD OF HIS SON WHO HAS GONE THOUSANDS AWAY TO SERVE A COMMUNITY. FOR YEARS, THE 18-YEAR-OLD DRIVER CHARGED IN THE ACCIDENT HAS CHALLENGED WITH A JUDGE FOR THE FIRST TIME TODAY. COURT RECORDS SHOW JARREN LIGHTFOOT WENT 89 MILES AN HOUR BEFORE HIT OFFICER MOE BAUER’
Kansas City Police officer killed in line identified as an Omaha native
Updated: 11:02 PM CST February 17, 2023
A Kansas City police officer, his K-9 partner and a pedestrian died in a crash in Missouri Wednesday night. Police say shortly after 10.15pm, a car crashed into the officer’s car. That incident caused the cruiser to hit a person walking nearby. At a press conference Thursday in Kansas City, Missouri, Police Chief Stacey Graves identified the K-9 officer and partner as James Muhlbauer and K-9 officer Champ. from KETV NewsWatch 7
A Kansas City police officer, his K-9 partner and a pedestrian died in a crash in Missouri Wednesday night.
Police say shortly after 10.15pm, a car crashed into the officer’s car. That incident caused the cruiser to hit a person walking nearby.
At a press conference Thursday in Kansas City, Missouri, Police Chief Stacey Graves identified the K-9 officer and partner as James Muhlbauer and K-9 officer Champ.
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