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CORRECTS SOURCE TO ASSOCIATED PRESS, NOT TOPEKA CAPITOL JOURNAL - Law enforcement vehicles surround the backside of an apartment complex evacuated by authorities as they hunt for a 22-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting two police officers, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Topeka, Kan. Two Kansas police officers were shot and killed outside the store on Sunday while responding to a report of a suspicious vehicle and died later at a hospital, authorities said.(AP Photo/John Hanna)
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Authorities say a man suspected in the fatal shooting of two Topeka police officers has died after an armed standoff with law enforcement at a house in the city.
The man is suspected of killing 50-year-old Cpl. David Gogian and 29-year-old Jeff Atherly as they responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle Sunday night.
Shawnee County officials say in a statement that Kansas Bureau of Investigation officers tried to negotiate with the suspect before firing tear gas into the home.
The statement says he emerged from the home carrying a gun and officers shot him. He was taken to a hospital where he died of his injuries early Monday.
It wasn't clear whether the suspect fired his gun.
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