Police video shows officer being shot
Kansas City, Mo. ? Police on Thursday released video of an officer being shot by the 51-year-old man who then fled the scene of that shooting and minutes later killed two strangers at a shopping mall before he was killed by police.
The police video also contained separate footage from the squad car of an officer who responded to the mall parking lot and showed him entering the Target store with a rifle.
The suspect, David W. Logsdon, 51, of Kansas City, opened fire about 3:30 p.m. April 29 in the parking lot of Ward Parkway Center, killing Leslie N. Ballew, 33, of Kansas City, and Luke A. Nilges, 30, of Shawnee. Both were random victims.
The five-minute video from the officer’s squad car before the mall shooting shows the officer pulling into a convenience store in south Kansas City about 3:10 p.m., then talking to a man in another car. The suspect is not seen or heard clearly on the video.
The 42-year-old officer, who has not been named, was seen only briefly, but he is heard throughout the video.
“Hey let me see your hands,” the officer, a 15-year veteran of the Kansas City Police Department, said to the suspect, who was later identified as Logsdon. “Don’t pull a gun on me,” the officer says repeatedly.
The officer tells Logsdon to turn off the car and show his hands. “I’m just checking to see if this car is all right,” the officer says. “Turn it off. Don’t pull a gun on me.”
“You got one chance partner,” he says. He then tells the suspect repeatedly to drop the gun.
Off camera there is the sound of gunfire and the officer responding with a groan. A car, presumably the one Logsdon was using, pulls away.
The officer then fires about a dozen shots, some of which are shown as he moves into view of the video camera. He calls police dispatch and says he has been shot in the right arm but that he is all right. He announces that the suspect is heading south.
Logsdon then sped to the mall – where he had worked as an unarmed security guard at the Target store until losing his job last year – and fired more shots until a police officer shot him.




