ELLIS, Kan. —

A tip to Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers ultimately led to the arrest of the suspect in the shooting of a Lee's Summit, Missouri, police officer, according to a Tuesday morning news release.

And suspect Thomas Tolbert did not go quietly. Advertisement

Tolbert, 27, was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning at a hotel in Ellis, Kansas.

According to a news release from the Ellis, Kansas, Police Department, that arrest started with a tip sent in to Crime Stoppers.

Police said officers got a tip around 2:04 a.m. from Crime Stoppers that Tolbert was staying at a Days Inn Hotel on Washington Street in Ellis.

Ellis police worked with the Ellis County Communications unit to broadcast the information, and all available law enforcement units, including police from nea

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