Four dead in Kansas City shootings Rampage
Pastor Dale Morgan
Monday April 30, 9:25 AM Reuters
*Four dead in Kansas City shootings Rampage
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By Carey Gillam
KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - Three people were shot dead including
the assailant and at least two were wounded on Sunday in a shooting
spree at a Kansas City shopping mall, police said.
Police were investigating whether an earlier homicide at a house six
miles (10 km) away involved the shopping mall gunman, who was killed by
an officer.
Kansas City police said a man, whom they did not immediately identify,
pulled into a parking lot outside the mall that was filled with
"hundreds and hundreds" of shoppers and immediately fatally shot two
people who were parked on each side of him.
The gunman went into the mall and wounded at least two other people,
according to Sgt. Tony Sanders.
"It was just mass chaos, as you can imagine, on a Sunday in a crowded
mall," Sanders said.
The incident came nearly two weeks after a Virginia Tech university
student killed 32 people and then himself in the worst mass shooting in
modern U.S. history.
Sanders said police were called to the mall and shot and killed the
attacker, who was armed with what he would only describe as a "long gun."
The series of events began about 2 p.m. CDT (1900 GMT) when police were
called to a home in an upscale south Kansas City neighbourhood where
they found a body. After discovering the deceased's car was missing,
police put out a description of the vehicle.
An officer who subsequently pulled the suspect vehicle over went to the
driver's side of the car, when the driver pulled out a handgun and shot
him through the arm and fled, according to police.
The officer was taken to a hospital with a non-life threatening injury.
About 15 minutes after that incident, police received the report of the
shooting at the nearby mall. They entered and shot the gunman there,
Sanders said.
Witnesses told radio and television they heard shots inside the mall,
and one said his son saw a man on the ground in shock with blood on his
face.
(Additional reporting by Jui Chakravorty in Detroit)