Three federal agents shot, motel set ablaze in Topeka Kansas
TOPEKA, Kansas — What started as a would-be arrest at a Kansas motel ended with three federal agents shot and the motel engulfed in flames.
Officers from the U.S. Marshals Service’s Fugitive Task Force went to the motel in Topeka on Saturday night to look for Orlando J. Collins, the FBI’s Kansas City office said. Collins, 28, was wanted on two robbery-related charges.
But as officers reached the motel room door, “they came under gun fire from inside the hotel room,” the FBI said in a statement.
Two deputy U.S. marshals and an FBI agent were shot but are expected to survive, the FBI said.http://fox6now.com/2016/04/24/4-fede...as-police-say/As the shooter kept firing from the motel room, “a fire was ignited from within the room, which eventually spread to the entire building,” the FBI said.
That blaze burned for more than three hours as flames soared into the night sky, CNN affiliate WIBW reported.
Authorities later found an unidentified body in the room Collins was believed to be in, the FBI said.
No one else was injured, since the hotel had been evacuated.
Got a bit sporty up there in Topeka.
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