Armed Robbery at Check Into Cash

Raytown Police Dept.

PRESS RELEASE

Subject:            Raytown Robbery

Date:                12/28/2010

On 12/28/2010 at 8:27 AM Raytown Officers were dispatched to an alarm at Check Into Cash in the 6100 block of Raytown Trafficway.  Upon their arrival it was learned that a robbery had occurred and the suspect, armed with a handgun, had fled on foot from the rear of the business.  The suspect was seen by a Raytown officer as the suspect walked from the rear of the business complex and into the parking lot.  The officer followed the suspect in his patrol car onto Arlington where the suspect began to run from the officer.  The suspect ran west across Arlington in the 6100 block in front of the officer.  As the suspect ran in front of the officer’s car, the suspect fired two shots at the

officer.  The officer, who was still in his patrol car, was not hit by the rounds.  The suspect fled north and west through the neighboring yards.  The suspect ran back south to the driveway of a residence in the 6100 block of Arlington where he attempted to hide in the bed of a pickup truck that was parked in the driveway.  Officers searching the area saw the suspect in the bed of the truck.  The suspect was confronted by the officers and ordered to show his hands.  The suspect refused to obey the officers’ commands and ducked back down in the bed of the truck. The officers then heard a single gunshot.  Upon approaching the truck it was discovered that the suspect suffered from a self inflicted gunshot wound.  Raytown Emergency Medical Services was called to the scene and the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.  No one else was injured.  The suspect was identified as Te’Ardan Keith Andrew Hill, a 22 year black male.