HAYS, Kan. (AP) — A western Kansas police officer was fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence call at the home of a suspect who appeared to have later killed himself, authorities said.

Hays Police Sgt. Scott Heimann died of his injuries early Sunday after being transported by air to a hospital, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation said. Heimann, 32, joined the police in 2016.

He is the fourth Kansas law enforcement officer to die on duty in a little more than three months.

Police received a call just before midnight Saturday about a woman who fled from the suspect’s home in Hays, a town of about 21,000 people about 200 miles (322 kilometers) west of Topeka on Interstate 70, according to the KBI, which is investigating the officer’s shooting. The woman reported that — as she t

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