Apr 24, 2023

Still missing: Suspect in Kan. officer shooting released by mistake

Posted Apr 24, 2023 12:00 PM
Mitchell-Locke-photo Platte County
Mitchell-Locke-photo Platte County

KANSAS CITY— Law enforcement authorities are searching for 21-year-old Jae’veon Marquice Mitchell-Locke, a suspect in the April 5, shooting of three Kansas police officers during an undercover fentanyl trafficking investigation, according  to the Platte County Sheriff's office.

Officials at the Platte County, Missouri Detention Center released him inadvertently on April 20.

Mitchell-Locke and two other suspects in the gunfight are charged in Wyandotte County with attempted murder, aggravated battery against law enforcement, criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied building or vehicle, aggravated endangering a child, aggravated assault of law enforcement officers and distribution or possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, according to online jail records.