Saturday, July 21, 2007

The Kansas City MetroRegion Overnight News and Weather Report - Saturday, July 21, 2007

** GUNS WERE ABLAZE IN BOTH KANSAS CITYS OVERNIGHT **

... It was 4:17 AM when the first call came in for a shooting in the 1100 block of Woodland in KC-MO.
Officers arrived to find 2 men shot by an unknown assailant(s?). Only one victim was heard taken to a hospital- an that approximately 30-year-old male's condition was critical.
Police didn't have any suspect information as of this report.

It's unknown this is related to a shooting that happened nearby- in the 1700 block of Gillespie Place- shortly after midnight. Unknown suspect or suspects shot a
male then drove away in a white over blue-colored Chevy with "a raggedy top."
The victim in this incident only suffered minor injuries.
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It was 1:27 am when a Kansas City-KS police officer reports "being shot at"- this during a rolling gunfight between people in 2 cars at 8th Street and Minnesota - only a block from the Central Patrol police station.

The only car that officer saw shooting- a silver-colored Oldsmobile- ends up at a KC-MO hospital about 15 minutes later- where a male with critical gunshot wound to the neck was dropped off by other occupants of that car. At last report that person was undergoing surgery.
The other occupants were held for questioning and the car impounded by police.

The 2nd car involved- a yellow over white Monte Carlo- was found in KC-MO riddled with bullet holes and those occupants were arrested.
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** MAN CRITICALLY WOUNDED IN 2ND KC-KS SHOOTING **

... This happened around 4:15 am Saturday morning in the 2000 block of North 1st Street. The male victim- reported to be "shot point-blank in the stomach" walked to a residence in the 2000 block of North 2nd Street where police and EMS were called.
That man was in critical condition as reported enroute to a trauma center. He didn't offer police any broadcast suspect information.

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** KC-MO POLICE INVESTIGATE ANOTHER CARJACKING - POSSIBLE ABDUCTION **

... Another female abducted with her car?
It sounds like it after KC-MO police are called by a Fire department pumper who was putting out a car fire south of Swope Park on Blue River Road between Oldham and 87th Street.
A female assault victim "came out of the woods" there according to Pumper 30's captain. The victim had unknown injuries and it reportedly was her car that was burning after she had "been driven there by" unknown male suspects.
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** Fire Heavily Damages KC-KS Duplex **

... Fire broke out just after midnight Saturday morning in a duplex in the 300 block of South 73rd Drive in KC-KS.
The blaze was in the attic and walls of the reported 2-story structure- and it took five companies until 12:42 am to bring the fire under control.
No one was injured- but two adults and a child were displaced by the fire. The cause was under investigation.
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** BREAKING NEWS: UNKNOWN "STRUCTURE FIRE" AT CLAYCOMO FORD PLANT **

... Fire companies from Claycomo- Liberty and Gladstone are at the scene of an unknown structure fire at the Ford automotive assembly plant on N.E. U.S. 69 Highway.
The only info heard after the 6:32 am dispatch on this incident was that "thick smoke was coming from (a) garage" there- according to a police officer's report at 6:40 am..
A pumper was sent from Liberty Fire at that time and- at 6:56 am- a third pumper responded from Gladstone-MO Fire.
No further has been heard on this fire as of this report.
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<><><> OVERNIGHT WEATHER <><><>

Skies were variably to mostly cloudy overnight throughout the MetroRegion and a few light rainshowers had even developed in Platte County MO.. Winds were generally light easterly and temperatures fell to the 70-degree mark at sunup.

Today should be slightly below-normal temperature-wise with skies becoming partly cloudy- with a chance of some popup afternoon showers and thundershowers in extreme southwestern through western parts of the K.C. MetroRegion.

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