Clinton Police Officer Killed

event for this community. and especially this police department.") a small missouri town heartbroken ...once again..after a shootout kills a clinton police officer.. and injures two others. thanks for joining us at 6... police say the shooter.. is this man.. 37-year-old james waters... killed in the confrontation. tonight.. we're learning more about his past legal trouble.. and ties to st. joe. kq2's brooke anderson has more... << an offer killed in the line of duty.. 30-year-old clinton officer christopher ryan mortan was shot tuesday night.. responding to a 9-1-1 call from a frantic woman inside a home with this man.. 37-year-old james waters.sot (" police say waters shot at officers from outside... and a shootout ensued when they entered.. officer mortan and waters both killed in the shootout.. two other officers injured.. the woman inside, unharmed.sot ("well they thought it was no big deal until the cops started getting fired at, and then it was like...this is not something playing around. so, it was all new to us.")tonight we're learning more about waters troubled past in saint joe.. records show he lived in midtown back in 20-14.. and has had his fair share of run- ins with the law. <<street sign>> waters served jail time for a drug trafficking felony in buchanan county back in 20-08. and was arrested again by st. joe police in 20-13.. police say he ran away from them after following a woman home and shooting a gun into the air. <<mug shots>>meantime.. while police investigate what went wrong in this clinton home tuesday night.. a community mourns the loss of a respected member of their community. <<officer pic> brooke anderson..kq2 your local news leader.>> it is not yet known if the suspect died as a result of the gun battle with police or if it was self-inflicted. the injured officers were taken to the hospital. their injuries were not life- threatening. the deadly shooting comes seven months to the day after another clinton officer was killed in the line of duty... kq2's syndie holzfaster joins us in the studio with more on this story... mortan re- joined the department after officer gary michael was killed in the line of duty michael was shot and killed during a traffic stop last august. no one associated with the department thought they would be going through this again... (sot sgt. bill lowe: "you know, it's -- it's hard to put into words what -- what you go through when when you have. an officer killed in the line of duty. and then to have it happened to a department, after a short period of time, you know that's it's hard to, hard to wrap your head around.") police captured the man accused of killing officer michael. he's charged with murder. prosecutors say they will pursue the death penalty against him. it's