Overview

• The Kansas Bureau of Investigation identified the fallen officer as Sgt. Scott Heimann, 32, who joined the Hays Police Department in 2016.
• A 911 caller reported fleeing a domestic violence incident, saying her partner rammed her vehicle with a truck before she sought help nearby.
• Around 1:55 a.m., a single shot fired from inside the suspect’s home struck Heimann as officers and a highway patrol trooper set a perimeter; he died at a regional hospital just after 4 a.m.
• Tactical teams negotiated and used gas, window-breaking projectiles, and a surveillance drone before entering at about 6:15 a.m. and finding the suspect, 34-year-old Zane Wickham, deceased.
• No officers discharged their weapons during the standoff, and the death marks the fourth Kansas line-of-duty loss in a little over three months and the first in Hays since 1875, according to records.