Heads up Kansas City. Darwin award in the making

[ZeSpectre]

Shootings reported near Metro bus stops

Police are investigating five drive-by shootings that occurred this morning in Kansas City, three near Metro bus stops.

No one was seriously injured in any of the incidents.

Police are looking for three young men who are wearing ski masks and firing a BB gun. They are traveling in a white vehicle, possibly a 2000 Chevrolet Malibu, with a broken rear taillight.

The first shooting occurred about 6 a.m. near Swope Parkway and Prospect Avenue, according to police. A woman, believed to be about 70 years old, was taken to the hospital with serious but not-life-threatening injuries after being shot while waiting for a Metro bus.

The second shooting occurred shortly thereafter at a bus stop near 35th Street and Prospect Avenue and wounded a man believed to be about 50 years old.

The third shooting injured a man in his 40s about 7 a.m. at a bus stop near Independence and Garfield avenues. No further details were immediately available about the shooting, including the extent of injuries.

The fourth shooting occurred about a half-hour later near 8th Street and Lydia Avenue outside a business. No one was hit in that incident, or in a fifth shooting about 7:50 a.m. outside a business at 12th Street and the Paseo.

No further suspect information was immediately available this morning.

Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).

| Christine Vendel, [email protected]

 

[Thernlund]

BB gun huh? They obviously didn't think this through. Return fire will be a decidedly higher caliber I'm sure.


-T.

 

[siglite]

Wow. Yeah, someone's going to blow these idiots away.

 

[Cougfan2]

That whole are around Swope Parkway and Prospect is bad news particularly at night. When I lived in KC we avoided that area like the plague. It is gang central in KC.

The sad thing is that Swope Park is a beautiful area and the Starlight Theatre is one of the most enjoyable venues for a concert or play I have ever been to.

 

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

I see they operate in the good part of town---lololololol.

Return fire will be swift and sure.

 

[MinnMooney]

Hopefully they'll video tape themselves doing the shooting and brag about it like the idiots did while shooting paint balls @ pedestrians along the sidewalks. They couldn't resist bragging about it and showed off the video.

Instant Darwinian Award!

 

[Cliff]

I grew up in Kansas City also. My mother & sister are still there. My mother still carries the .38 snubbie my father gave her many years ago. Swope parkway and prospect is not bad at all. Not like it was years ago. I agree in that these idiots are gonna be in for the surprise of their lives if they continue this.
A LOT of citizens in Kansas City are carrying nowadays. It's only a matter of time before these three dips are gonna be on the receiving end of something decidedly bigger then BB's like Thernlund said.

 

[Kind of Blued]

I'm going back home to KC in a little while... I hope these kids don't stop by.

 

[Dstoerm]

"Swope parkway and prospect is not bad at all. Not like it was years ago."

Man, you have got to be kidding. This area is rough with a capital R! Since KC has decided to revamp the Downtown area, and 'Mid-Town' and the 'Crossraods' projects came on line, the vermin are on the move again. It is forcing the rats back into thier old haunts.

I wouldn't go near Swope Park after dark for any other reason than to shoot said rats.

KC is a dump... you cannot polish that turd. That is why most sane poeple live on the KS side now. Ward Parkway is next, just wait and see.

-D

 

[daskro]

Ward Parkway is next, just wait and see.

I keep on hearing this but it just doesn't seem to stick. I grew up a few blocks away from Ward Parkway and 15 years after hearing "Ward Parkway is next," I've yet to see it come into fruition.