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SALINA, Kan. - One man has been killed and a Salina police officer is hospitalized after a shooting at a home. Police Chief Jim Hill says officers went to the home late Thursday on a report of a man with a gun. The Salina Journal reports when police arrived and weren't able to contact the suspect, five officers entered the house early Friday, announcing their presence.
Hill says the suspect, 19-year-old Marijon Gadson, responded by firing multiple shots, striking Officer Charleton Huen in the face. Hill said police then returned fire, retrieved Huen and called for an ambulance.Police re-entered the house around 6:00 a.m. Friday and found Gadson dead in the basement. The cause of his death wasn't immediately clear. Huen was taken to a hospital in Oklahoma.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is looking into the case.