Follow on Officer Assaulted in Kansas
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A Four State officer is released from the hospital after being treated for injuries sustained while trying to arrest a suspect. According to an anonymous call to KSN, the suspect is 18-year-old Jose Birrueta who was involved in a series of events late Tuesday night. Those events left Officer Chad Dininger with head injuries. Dininger began as a patrol officer with the Joplin Police Department five years ago. Birrueta was finally taken into police custody a few blocks away but not without another scuffle with police. During this second struggle the officer`s gun discharged, shooting Birrueta in the neck. He remains in critical condition at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas. We will continue to update you with further information as it becomes available.
