COLUMBUS, Kan. — The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are probing the shooting death of a man during a Friday traffic stop.
Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Corbit at 1:05 a.m. Friday stopped a vehicle on Highway 69, about three-fourths of a mile north of Lawton Road, according to a news release issued by Undersheriff Kent Soucy.
Corbit turned around and activated his car’s warning lights and the vehicle gradually slowed. When the vehicle had slowed to about 10 mph, it went into the ditch and stopped about three-fourths of a mile south of Lawton Road.
Corbit approached the vehicle and determined that the driver apparently shot himself with a shotgun in the head, and was dead.
Authorities were withholding the name of the dead man pending notification of family.
