CHERRYVALE, Kan. (AP) - Authorities say a southeast Kansas grocery store employee took a co-worker hostage before wounding the man and fatally shooting himself.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says the shooting happened Monday after law enforcement officers from several agencies responded to a report of an armed man at the G&W Foods grocery store in Cherryvale.
The KBI identified the man Tuesday as 28-year-old Jamal Brown of Independence.
The agency says Brown was holding the co-worker hostage in an office at the store when officers arrived. Customers and employees were being evacuated when gunshots were heard from the office. The KBI says officers who entered the room saw Brown shoot himself.
The co-worker, a 39-year-old man, was hospitalized in Joplin, Missouri. His condition was upgraded Tuesday to fair.
No further information was released.
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