The apartment complex where a woman and child died after an officer fired a weapon during a domestic disturbance is seen Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, in Independence, a suburb of Kansas City, Mo.

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) -- A woman and a child are dead after an officer fired a weapon while responding to a domestic disturbance at an apartment in the Kansas City suburb of Independence, Missouri.

"Heartbreaking" is how Independence Police Chief Adam Dustman described it at a news conference Friday.