(MSC News)--A Kansas City, Kansas detective shot and killed in the line of duty has ties to Buchanan and Platte Counties in Missouri.

KQ2-TV reports the Buchanan County Sheriff's Department confirms 39-year-old Detective Brad Lancaster attended the law enforcement academy at Missouri Western before beginning his career with the Platte County Sheriff's Department. Lancaster eventually moved on to Kansas City, where he's worked for nearly a decade.

Lancaster was killed Monday afternoon near the Kansas Speedway.

Police say he was assisting an officer with a suspicious person call near the Hollywood Casino.

The suspect, 28-year-old Curtis Ayers, of Tonganoxie, allegedly ran down a hill where he shot Lancaster and fled in the detective's vehicle before stopping a short distance away.

When he stopped, he car-jacked another vehicle with children inside. That vehicle was later recovered at a house where Ayers allegedly took the homeowner's car at gunpoint.

Ayers crashed into a pillar at Bannister Road and US Highway 71 after a police chase.

More gunfire was exchanged between Ayers and authorities. During that shootout, Ayers was injured.

Police say he is expected to survive.

Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has issued a statement regarding the death of Lancaster. 

In a press release received by MSC News Tuesday morning, Schmidt says, "Kansas mourns the senseless death of yet another dedicated law enforcement officer in the line of duty. My thoughts and prayers go out to Detective Brad Lancaster's family and friends and to all the men and women who serve in the KCK Police Department."