KCPD: Man shot at Argosy Casino parking lot, suspect on the run shot, killed by police on I-29
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A man died after police said he shot his ex-wife’s new partner multiple times, leading law enforcement on a chase. It all started in Riverside at the Argosy Casino and ended in an officer-involved shooting on I-29 near the airport.
Riverside police spotted the suspect vehicle in the shooting — a rental U-Haul truck — racing out of Argosy’s parking lot and attempted to conduct a traffic stop. The vehicle continued, and a law enforcement pursuit ensued, driving into Kansas City, Missouri, and onto Interstate 29, according to KCPD.
The vehicle pursuit ended in the area of I-29 and I-435 around 6:40 a.m. when the U-Haul’s tires were deflated by stop sticks. Police negotiators attempted to diffuse the situation for 30 minutes, when the shooting suspect, later identified as 36-year-old Dustin Johnson, got out of the vehicle with a gun pointed at police, KCPD stated.
Two Riverside police officers and one Platte County sheriff’s deputy fired their weapons. Johnson was struck and given aid by responding police. EMS took him to a hospital, where he died from his injuries, according to KCPD. A handgun was recovered from the scene where Johnson had been shot. No officers were injured during this incident.
The victim shot in the parking lot was struck multiple times and suffered non-life-threatening injuries, KCPD stated. Officers relayed that the domestic dispute involved an ex-husband (Johnson) and a new partner (the victim at the Argosy Casino parking lot).
Southbound I-29 was shut down for about 30 minutes before reopening at 7:40 a.m. Northland drivers planning to take I-29 near Kansas City International Airport were forced to take alternative routes until 12:30 p.m., when all lanes reopened.
Claude Van Zandd is now piecing together the story behind the sounds he heard from his motel window on Thursday morning.
“I heard two pops. It could have been more shots but I don’t know. Nothing else happened, I went back to sleep,” said Van Zandd.
Those two pops woke him out of his sleep while staying at the Super 8 Motel across the street from the Argosy Casino in Riverside. Later, he saw an active police presence and crime scene tape around the casino’s parking lot.
“I figured it was somebody lost at the casino and somebody had told me that was somebody– a love triangle that turned square.”
He is now learning the details of the events that unfolded just across the street from where he was staying which ended in a suspect getting shot and killed by police.
“I mean, people, Jesus, we’ve seen it hundreds and hundreds of times. You get out of your car when the cops say get out of the car and you get out of the car with a gun, OK, you’re gonna get shot.”
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