This hasn't/didn't get QUITE the news media-play I thought it would get...
Quite a few people use Oldham Road through Swope Park for their weekday commute.
Oldham is one of the few through routes (especially when 87th & 95th Streets are messed-up) into southeastern KC-MO and with it's hilly- wooded topography the drive reminds one of the Ozarks.
Tuesday- that ordinarily pleasant drive turned into one of terror for those unfortunate to be nearing the intersection of Hillcrest Road around 5pm.
A man reportedly crashed his car into a tree- then- he got out and started walking away with a loaded rifle.
The man started randomly firing at vehicles that had stopped behind his wrecked car. Their occupants ducked- no one one was hit.
Also in the small traffic jam and several vehicles behind was a female KC-MO police officer. She immediately sounded an assist-the-officer call and gets out of her unmarked car to confront the shooter.
Other officers arrive fast and in the ensuing minutes- the male shooter is brought down by bullets from 5 police officers.
The man dies en route to Research Med Center.
As I stated in a previous post- this is a sign that economic hard times and other factors may increasingly push those on the edge over same....
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