Officers converge in search for individual Tuesday morning in southeast Topeka

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Officers from several local agencies were searching for a person early Tuesday in the Highland Park neighborhood of southeast Topeka, but hadn’t located the individual by late in the morning, authorities said.

Officers responded around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday to the 2800 block of S.E. Massachusetts Avenue.

Initial reports indicated officers were seeking a person who may have run into a house.

Units from the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office, the Topeka Police Department and the Topeka Public Schools Police Department were on the scene.

Officers could be seen coming out of a house at 2820 S.E. Massachusetts Ave., on he east side of the street about midway on the block.

Shawnee County sheriff’s spokeswoman Deputy Abigail Christian said late Thursday morning that officers were in the area searching for an individual.

That person hadn’t been located as of 11 a.m. Tuesday, and the investigation was ongoing, Christian said.

Additional details, including why the individual was being sought, weren’t immediately available.

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