Man injured, tied to patrol HQ gunfire
LIBERTY, Mo. — A man fired several shots with an assault-style rifle at a suburban Kansas City headquarters for the Missouri State Highway Patrol before he was shot and wounded by troopers, the patrol said Tuesday.
The man, identified as Tayland Rahim, 27, of Kansas City, Mo., was shot Monday night at Troop A headquarters in Lee’s Summit. Investigators are trying to determine his motive, but he was there “to do some harm, no doubt about it,” spokesman Sgt. Bill Lowe said.
Rahim, who didn’t have a criminal record in Missouri, was in stable condition Tuesday at a hospital. Lowe didn’t release where on his body he was struck. No troopers or civilian employees inside the headquarters were injured.
The patrol agency said employees inside the building heard gunshots, and troopers who went to an exterior door saw a man with the rifle. The man approached the main entrance and filed several shots.
He was shot after he did not comply with several orders from the troopers, Sgt. Andy Bell said.
Lowe also credited a trooper who was outside the building when the man arrived with helping to alert those inside.
Lowe said Rahim had yet to be questioned Tuesday and that the investigation was continuing. Patrol officers had not had much, if any, interaction with the man before Monday’s confrontation, Lowe said.
Law enforcement also searched a relative’s home where Rahim was living in Kansas City on Tuesday and seized four firearms and dozens of rounds of ammunition, Lowe said.