Police arrest three after shots are fired near Seneca
Three men are in custody following a police chase and a search in a wooded area off Highway 43 near Seneca last night.
It all began when Seneca police tried to stop a pickup truck shortly after 8:30 p.m Gunfire struck the police cruiser involved in the chase. No one was injured.
Seneca Police Chief James Altic says authorities initiated a search after the truck hit a tree in a wooded area.
“We did arrest a shooter about a half mile north of where they abandoned the vehicle,” Chief Altic states.
“The other guy that was a passenger was located coming out of the brush walking down the road around nine o’clock this morning,” Altic adds.
A third man was arrested on Sunday.
Altic says the driver of the pickup truck is in a Joplin hospital after being injured in the collision with the tree. The other two are in the Newton County jail.