Radio dispatches offer insight after officer shot

(AP) – Radio dispatch audio offers insight into the chaos that
followed the fatal shooting of Clinton, Missouri, police Officer Gary Michael.The Kansas City Star on Monday obtained an audio recording of police
dispatches in the moments surrounding the shooting.

Michael had stopped a 2008 Dodge Nitro for a registration violation Sunday
night. Ten seconds later came word that shots were fired and an officer was
struck.

An officer requested an ambulance “immediately.” An emergency worker advised
that the officer had been shot twice in the chest and was in cardiac arrest.

The suspect, 39-year-old Ian McCarthy, remains on the loose but has been
charged with first-degree murder. Authorities were searching for McCarthy in the
Clinton area, about 75 miles southeast of Kansas City.

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