Saturday, February 28, 2009

Kansas City MetroRegion Overnight News Report - Saturday - February 28- 2009



** Shooting Leads To Chase From Raytown Into KC-MO **



*** A man was reportedly shot near 63rd Street and Blue Ridge Cutoff early Saturday morning. A Jackson County Sheriff's deputy heard the shots and chased a suspect vehicle.



The incident was around 12:45am near the Quik Trip store in far western Raytown. A sheriff's deputy at the store heard the shots- then pursued a suspect vehicle west on 63rd Street.



The suspects reportedly threw a possible firearm from the vehicle east of Hardesty before the chase ended a few minutes later near the Pepsi Cola bottling plant on Manchester Trafficway north of 63rd Street.



The deputy had "5 to 6 suspects at gunpoint" without any backup and an assist-the-officer call went out to KC-MO police. Those suspects were in police custody without incident or injury within 10 minutes.

The victim reportedly drove himself or was driven to a south KC-MO medical center where the "seriously-injured" male had gone into surgery.




Police reported a "large party" had occurred somewhere on Blue Ridge and the victim/suspects may have attended the function..


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** KC-MO Wreck Seriously Injures Two **


*** An early Saturday morning crash caused serious injuries to at least one male & female.

The wreck was reported about 12:45am in the 4900 block of East 87th Street- in a cruve of the newer 4-lane roadway west of I-435.

Three vehicles were involved and an arriving police officer found one of the cars involved on it's top. Firefighters had to extricate the adult female.

Her and a 49-year-old male were taken to separate hospitals.


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** Fire Damages Vacant KC-KS House **


... A two-story vacant house was possibly set on fire around 1:25am Saturday morning in the 1100 block of North 19th Street..

A fire company had been dispatched to the area of 19th Street and State Avenue on the report of smoke in the area and found the smoke pouring from the basement and first-floor of the house just north of State..

The house was found vacant and there were no firefighter injuries during the about 45-minute firefight..

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** Police Investigate Suspicious Death in Prairie Village **


... The death came in as "a non-breather" in the 8700 block of Mission Road around 1:48am. When Medact_EMS paramedics arrived- they declared the unknown patient dead-on arrival.

Police who responded to the call ordered detectives- but little else is known right now.


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<><><> OVERNIGHT WEATHER <><><>



Snow followed a northwest-southeast track along the Missouri River from the Omaha area through the Kansas City Metro overnight.

Snowfall amounts in the Metro ranged from 2-1/2 to 5-inches while some snowfall totals from areas northeast and southeast of K.C. receiving up to 8-inches. By late Saturday afternoon- snow had moved out of the MetroRegion.

Cold temperatures Sunday moning in the zero to 5-degrees above zero range will prevail with possible below-zero morning lows in northern and low-lying areas. Temperatures will rise above freezing by Monday afternoon.
< align="justify">A strong warm-up is on tap for the middle of the week- with temperatures reaching the 70-degree mark by Wednesday.


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