BELTON, Mo. -- A robbery and hostage situation in Belton Friday ended with police shooting a suspect.

At about 9 a.m., an employee at the ACE Cash Express on North Scott Avenue was opening up the business when a man approached her and demanded money.

"She was unable to offer that up. The alarms went off, and we responded to the scene, and that's when the confrontation occurred," said Sgt. Brad Swanson, of the Belton Police Department.

Ron Ware works at the auto shop next door. He noticed a lot of police pulling up and went outside to see what was going on.

"One of them turned around, and he had a gun up to his chest like that. I knew something was up," Ware said.

Ware saw two people standing in the window of the check-cashing business, he said.

"I could see the gun. I could see the hostage, you know, and I thought that isn't good," Ware said.

A few minutes later, he said he saw the man with the gun run out of the building still holding on to his hostage.

"He was trying to shield himself with her, you know," Ware said.

He watched as police followed the man, who went to the end of the parking lot and started kicking through a fence. Then he heard one gunshot and then another.

"They had him right over to the side here, and they shot him, and he went down, and then the little gal took off running over here to the boat trailer," Ware said.

The woman who was taken hostage was shaken up but she was not physically hurt, police said.

Late Friday, police identified the suspect as Rowdy Offield, 37, of Urich, Mo., according to a news release from Swanson.

Prosecutors charged Offield with attempted robbery, two counts of armed criminal action, one count of kidnapping and one count of felony possession of a weapon, according to the news release.

Offield was taken to a hospital for treatment and was listed in stable condition.

He was being held on $500,000 bond, according to the news release.