Off-duty officer and his wife killed in Kansas when car turned in front of them

An off-duty Missouri police officer and his wife were killed in southeast Kansas crash when a car pulled in front of their motorcycle, officials said.

David Brewer, 42, and Stacey Brewer, 41, died from their injuries after their 2014 Harley Davidson motorcycle collided with a 2007 Pontiac car that had pulled onto Highway 160 west of Columbus, the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office said in a release. The crash was reported at around 10 a.m. Friday.

David Brewer was an officer with the Joplin Police Department. He had been with the department for 11 years and was a traffic officer who used a police motorcycle, Joplin police said in a Facebook post.

“We are saddened and shaken by the loss of one of our own,” Joplin police Chief Matthew Stewart wrote on Twitter.

The 20-year-old Columbus woman driving the Pontiac was not injured, the sheriff’s office said.

Brewer is at least the fourth off-duty police officer killed in a crash in Kansas in the past four months.

An off-duty Wichita police officer and his son were killed in an April crash with a pickup. The pickup’s driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.

In May, an off-duty Topeka police officer was killed in a crash with a wrong-way driver.

After an off-duty Concordia officer crashed his motorcycle into the back of another vehicle that had stopped on a highway in June, a pedestrian was arrested and charged with pedestrian under the influence and second-degree murder.