LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a police officer shot and critically wounded a stabbing suspect in Leavenworth.

The shooting happened around 5 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Fifth and Seneca streets.

Leavenworth Police Chief Pat Kitchens said the Kansas Bureau of Investigation will review the shooting.

Kitchens said officers were looking for a suspect in a stabbing in Lansing at the time.

Kitchens said there was a brief standoff between the officers and the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Donald Barden, Jr. of Leavenworth, who had a handgun before an officer shot him.

Barden was taken to a hospital in critical condition.