Sunday, June 29, 2008

South KC-MO Cruisers Issue Result In At Least 7 Shot



Large groups of people had been congregating around the area of 87th Street and Hillcrest since the warm weather began.

There had already been several incidents that I reported to media outlets along with the crowd problem- reported at times as "several hundred" people congregating & cruising.

Early Sunday morning- the crowd issue came to a head.
At 12:55am- numerous gunshots were fired in a crowd gathered in the hotel lot in the 5600 block of East 87th Street.

One vehicle roared away with at least 3 gunshot victims- only to stop around 83rd Street & Hillcrest. Four more persons suffered gunshots- a MAST-EMS supervisor told me "five were critically-injured with 2 non life-threatening" victims.

Yet unknown if any dead at the scene and police reported 4 to 5 persons "in custody."

The investigation is on-going at this hour.

I wonder if/how the police will address future repeat complaints of large crowds in this or other chronic areas on weekends?

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

87th and Hillcrest? Nice area. Should be a good place to build a soccer stadium. That'll clean up the 'hood seeing as how the natives are all about peace love and harmony.

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