Hit-and-Run on Officer: Police Seek Camry Driver

0:00It's April 23rd. This is Kansas News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the story. Lee's summit police are hunting for a driver who slammed into an officer and peeled out during a traffic stop last weekend. It all went down around 10.30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18th, near Southwest, Donovan and Southwest Robin Rhodes in Missouri. The officer tried to pull over a Toyota Camry, but the driver bolted instead, clipping him and causing minor injuries. This stopped stem from reports of minors at a nearby house party, which is why cops were on the scene in the first place. Investigators say the suspect is a female, somewhere between 16 and 24 years old, behind the wheel of a charcoal gray Toyota Camry from 2007 to 2011 model years. That car already had damage on the right rear bumper before the crash. The officer shook it off with just some scrapes, but the hit and run has folks in the community fired up about road safety and party busts, gone wrong. Police are leaning on the public for tips, stressing how these clothes calls put everyone

1:03at risk during routine checks. They've dropped some photos from the scene to help ID the driver, but faces are blurred out. That's because juveniles tied to the house party are in the shots, and cops blurred them to play it safe legally. If you know anything about that Camry or the driver, hit up Lee's summit police. They're counting on eyes and ears to wrap this up quick.