KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas City, Kansas police officer died after being hit by a driver during a police chase Tuesday morning, Chief Karl Oakman confirmed.

KCK officer Hunter Simoncic was hit while trying to stop a car involved in a chase and was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. He has since died from his injuries.

Simoncic was 26 years old and graduated from the Kansas City, Kansas Police Academy in 2023. He was from Galesburg, Kansas.

He was hit near Kansas City, Kansas Community College, at the intersection of 75th and State Avenue, around midnight Tuesday.

Police were originally called to the area for sounds of shots fired. When officers arrived they found an armed suspect in a car and the chase began.

FOX4 was told that as an officer deployed stop sticks, t

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