Kansas City police sniper kills 18-year-old man holding his mother hostage at knife-point
A sniper with the Kansas City Police Department shot and killed an 18-year-old man who was holding his mother hostage at knife-point Thursday.
The 18-year-old man was a suspect in an armed carjacking last week, and when officers saw the man near 46th Street and Sterling Avenue yesterday, he ran into his mother’s house in the 10900 block of East 51st Street, KMBC Channel 9 reports.
The two-hour standoff ended with the 18-year-old man coming out of the house with a knife to his mother’s throat.
