Federal Marshals shot in Kansas motel arrest efforts of Orlando Collins
Orlando Collins
A Kansas motel became the epicenter of chaos as an arrest effort ended with three federal agents shot and the motel engulfed in flames. Officers from the U.S. Marshals Service’s Fugitive Task Force went to the motel in Topeka on Saturday night to look for Orlando J. Collins, the FBI’s Kansas City office said. Officers were met with gunfire.
FBI’s statement detailed that the officers reached the motel room door, but then “they came under gun fire from inside the hotel room.” Two deputy U.S. marshals and an FBI agent were shot but are expected to survive, the FBI said.
Collins, 28, was wanted on two robbery-related charges.
Topeka police said a fourth federal agent had been injured in the choas. That officer apparently suffered a leg injury but was not shot, the FBI said. As the shooter kept firing from the motel room, “a fire was ignited from within the room, which eventually spread to the entire building,” the FBI said.
Fire has gotten much larger and moved more toward the Topeka Blvd side of the building #WIBW @wibw pic.twitter.com/czBmEV1FP2
— Jonathan Deutsch (@wibwJonathan) April 24, 2016
