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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 18 sepTember 2018

Officials: Felon fatally shot

Kansas deputy during arrest

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A hood open on the black for ballistic testing to de-
man with a history of drug truck. Kunze patted down termine how many rounds
convictions fatally shot a the suspect's waistband were fired and from which
Kansas sheriff's deputy as and found a .40-caliber weapon or weapons, Eas-
the deputy tried to hand- handgun. ter said.
cuff the man on suspicion The gun was placed away Greeson had been a sus-
of vehicle theft, the sheriff's from the two of them, but pect in the earlier theft of
department said Monday. a fight ensued when Kunze a .40-caliber weapon as
The Sedgwick County tried to handcuff the sus- well as the black truck and
Sheriff's Office identified pect, Easter said at a news another vehicle on Sunday,
29-year-old Robert Gree- conference Sunday. Easter said, adding that
son as the suspect in the Kunze was able to use the while there were no other
killing of Deputy Robert emergency button on his suspects in the deputy's
Kunze, who died at a hos- portable radio to summon death, there may be more
pital after the shooting Sun- help. Another deputy ar- in the other cases.
day afternoon just outside rived about a minute later, The Bureau of Alcohol, To-
Wichita. Greeson also died and two witnesses hiding bacco, Firearms and Explo-
at the scene. nearby said shots had been sives is tracing the weapon
Sedgwick County Sheriff fired. The deputy found found at the scene to find
Jeff Easter described the Kunze and the suspect on out who owned it and
41-year-old Kunze as "an the ground. A .40-caliber whether it had been stolen, This 2012 photo provided by the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Of-
fice in Kansas shows Deputy Robert Kunze, who was shot Sun-
exceptional deputy." Kun- handgun was found next agency spokesman John day, Sept. 16, 2018, after receiving a call about a black truck
ze was a 12-year veteran of to the suspect. Ham said. that had been stolen.
the force. Kunze had been shot once Kansas Department of Associated Press
Easter said Kunze was re- in his upper torso, above Corrections records show
sponding to a report about his ballistic vest, Easter said. Greeson had convictions badge covered with a blue most of all he loved his
a man in a stolen black truck The suspect was shot in his for selling and distributing and black mourning band family." Kunze had a wife
who was lurking around upper torso and waist. drugs and for aggravated on its Facebook page to re- and child. "We will always
two all-terrain vehicles and Easter said the deputy's ve- battery. While incarcer- member Kunze. remember him for his smile,
another pickup about 20 hicle was equipped with a ated, he had multiple dis- Easter said Kunze "worked his contagious laugh and
miles (32 kilometers) west of dash camera but that foot- ciplinary infractions, includ- with great pride, loved and his ability to engage any-
downtown Wichita. When age was not yet available. ing for fighting. encouraged the people one and everyone in con-
Kunze arrived, he found the The department is waiting The sheriff's office posted a who worked with him, but versation," Easter said.q

Stanford to drop Spanish colonizer's name from its address

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — communities and left many punished if they tried to es- towering over an indige- of the Stanford commu-
Stanford University is drop- tribal communities deci- cape. The decision by the nous person. nity, and the larger diverse
ping the name of a contro- mated," according to the prestigious private school is The university is seeking world that Stanford seeks
versial 18th century Spanish advisory committee that the latest example of uni- to rename its mailing ad- to embrace," the advisory
priest and colonizer from its recommended removing versities, cities and other dress, Serra Mall, for its co- committee wrote.
mailing address and two his name. institutions abandoning founder Jane Stanford. Two The committee acknowl-
dormitories. Serra founded the first nine statues or names of contro- dorms named for Serra will edged the "sense of loss"
Junipero Serra led the sys- of 21 missions built by Span- versial historical figures. get new monikers. that alumni and others
tem of missions in Califor- ish colonists from 1769 to Last week, San Francisco "We hope that renaming might feel at changing the
nia that "contributed to the 1823, The San Francisco removed a statue long de- the two Serra houses and university's main street. But
destruction of the cultural, Chronicle reported Sunday cried as racist. The "Early Serra Mall will remove a it also said that the Serra
economic, and religious . Native Americans were Days" sculpture showed a significant hurt to Native name is a source of "genu-
practices of indigenous kept as slave labor and Spanish cowboy and priest Americans, other members ine pain."q