A Clinton, Mo. police officer was killed in a shooting Tuesday.

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At least one Missouri police officer was killed and two other officers were wounded in a shooting Tuesday night at a home about 75 miles outside Kansas City, authorities said.

Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Bill Lowe said at a news conference early Wednesday that the Clinton County 911 center received a call late Tuesday where two women could be heard screaming in the background. Clinton police officers responded to the home and were met with gunfire.

Lowe said the officers were shot at by an unidentified suspect from inside the home. Lowe said officers went inside to try and apprehend the suspect who then fatally shot one officers and wounded the other two.

Missouri State Highway Patrol said on Twitter the wounded officers were transported to a hospital. One suffered minor injuries and the other had moderate injuries, police said.

The officers were not immediately identified.

Lowe said a SWAT team entered the home but found the suspect dead.

It is the second Clinton police officer to die in the line of duty in the last seven months, according to Fox 4 KC.

“It’s a small department,” Lowe said. “It’s small enough that you know each individual officer and the community knows each individual officer, and it’s hard to put into words when you’re talking about an agency of this size, a community of this size where something tragic like this happened just seven months ago.”

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.