Pursuit- Two KC-MO Shooting Victims Begins Labor Day Weekend

Here's some of what happened around the Metro to the best of my knowledge Saturday morning...

I came on-duty at midnight to a slow-speed vehicle pursuit going on in the Mid to Downtown areas of KC-MO.. The police helicopter was above the suspect vehicle the whole time as the cops in their cars just held-back a block or two on either side of the chase.

The pursuit finally ended about 12:25 a.m. near 27th Street and Gilliam when the suspect driver realized he wasn't going very far very fast on 4 police-spiked and flattened tires.

It wasn't until around 3:15 a.m. when the Guns of Kansas City began blazing...


That's when KC-MO Center Zone cops themselves heard and also received civilian reports of gunshots in the area of Main from 35th Street to Westport Road.

A few minutes later- a male showed up in the 3600 block of Main with a reported gunshot wound to his back.

The victim should live with his injury- but there wasn't any suspect info.



The only other shooting victim heard about Saturday morning had been reported as being in "critical" condition at the hospital where she had been taken.

That incident was reported just before 4: 45 a.m. when a "Hispanic female" who had been "shot in the stomach" had been brought to Truman Med Center on Hospital Hill.

A report from Truman Med Center security stated that the female had been shot "in the Power & Light area."

Police had no other "official" information on this victim or circumstances.


Check in here tomorrow morning to read who did what to whom overnight tonight.... 

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Downtown KC-MO Pictorial on a Fall-like Late Summer's Day

The air was cooled into the 70's and was wrenched of most of the stifling moisture content that has dampened our 'Kosmic City' brows this very warm Summer of 2010.

The clean- crisp breezes brought a sparkling clarity to the cloudless blue sky- a great day for some high-resolution (click on 'em) photos...



Of course- the obligatory downtown skyline shot- this from a perspective looking north-northeast off Wyandotte near 16th Street.

Left to right- the Crowne Plaza hotel- the art-deco period Power & Light building nearly hiding One Kansas City Place- the former AT&T/TransAmerica building- below the Hotel President and to the right H&R Block headquarters building- eastward to the Traders and taller former Southwestern Bell buildings with the KC-MO City Hall sliced in-half like our elected-ones' sense off the frame far-right...

Up a little higher- slowly I turned (step by step...) southeastward- showing structures in and around the trendy Generation Whaddever Crossroad Arts and Freighthouse districts just north of Union Station (not pictured- but who the heck is that guy whose face is on the side of the tall- middle-foreground building?).

In the distance from left to right- the Tension Envelope Company building- Children's Mercy Hospital (to it's left- Truman Med Center)- and the towers of Crown Center- the UFO landing-pad Hyatt Regency hotel and former IBM office and Sutherland Lumber HQ buildings...



A patch of natural wildness in the virtual center of this urban gathering-place of more than 2-million of our species...

Show love to your sisters ... Show peace to your brothers... 

The last images are of 2 of MetroRegion Kansas City's most-expensive construction projects currently underway: the Kauffman Center For The Performing Arts and the new Paseo/I-35-29 bridge over the Missouri River...

These views of the KCPA are to the southwest and west near and from the intersection of 16th Street and Wyandotte.  

CSW has a time-series of  images going back nearly 2 years of the construction of the KCPA that I'll display here when this grand jewel on K.C.'s skyline is done...

The same goes with the new bridge carrying Interstate 35 from the Mexican border through Downtown's northeast freeway loop over the Missouri- to North KC- the junction with I-29 in the KC and Metro Northland- clear to Duluth Minnesota.

This baby is coming right along with a bridge deck more than twice as wide as the deck of the old Paseo Bridge.

That tall bridge support tower would look GREAT illuminated at night with LED lights- say red for the vertical and blue for the horizontal?

Please- ENJOY this 'last holiday of summer' 2010- YOU deserve it!

There's SantaCaliGon Days in Independence MO- as well as many other area events this Labor Day weekend.


If you're around the TeeVee- please watch KSHB NBC Action News and/or log-in here at CSW for weekend overnight incidents in Metro Kansas City.

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South KC-MO Convenience Store Clerk in Earlier Robbery-Shooting Has Tasered and Shot-Dead Another

A clerk at a Kansas City Southland convenience store who foiled an attempted robbery Wednesday morning by shooting at the suspects has been involved in another shooting at the store- this time the victim died.


The incident occurred around 7 p.m. at the store at 5500 East Bannister Road reports KSHB41 NBC Action News.

The same clerk involved in Wednesday morning's incident reportedly became involved in a disturbance with a person inside the store- then the clerk Tasered and shot that person.

The shooting victim later died at a Metro hospital.


It hasn't been reported yet if that person was somehow personally involved with Wednesday morning's foiled robbery suspects or whether the victim was attempting another robbery- though the latter isn't indicated.


CORRECTION:  KC-MO Police have NOT confirmed the identity of the store clerk involved in tonight's homicide.

It had been reported here earlier- based on the report on KSHB's Web page- that the same clerk involved in Wednesday morning's attempt was again involved tonight.

Their story was changed and I offer this correction as well.

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New Zealand Struck By Major Earthquake

I pray that all my Kiwi chat buddies are okay after an earthquake rated from 7.0 to 7.4 struck the south island of New Zealand a few hours ago.

The quake struck at 4:53 a.m. (1:53 p.m. Friday K.C. time) Saturday morning New Zealand time- and has "devastated" the city of Christchurch.

The NZ HERALD reports "2" serious injuries- but yet no fatalities- and a local tsunami warning was issued.

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CSW BREAKING: Working Fire in Overland Park KS Burger King

Courtesy of an Overland Park (OP) traffic camera- the images show what appears to be a cooking vent/roof fire at a Burger King at 13640 Metcalf.

The alarm was sounded for 5 OP Fire companies at 12:43 p.m. Friday afternoon- and these images were recorded before any of those fire companies arrived.


It's likely this Burger King won't be serving any hamburgers for the rest of today- possibly for a few days until the damage is repaired and OP health department inspectors giive their approval for re-opening.

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Kansas City MO Asked For $3.6-Million To Replace Liberty Intersection

Granted- the I-35 intersection with Missouri (M) 291 in Liberty is in bad need of a make-over.

Trouble is- the City of Liberty doesn't want to shoulder the whole $7.2-million cost- and wants KC-MO to "share" that burden.

KC-MO is already badly-strapped for cash- with MANY infrastructure/road repair/replacement projects lined-up for that city's decreasing revenue  (see KC LIVE payments and Leaky KC-MO Water Mains posts here on CSW).

However- according to The LIBERTY TRIBUNE- KC-MO Clowncilpersons Bill Skaggs and the-clowncilperson-who-would-LOVE-to-be-KC-MO's-next-corporate-darling-mayor- Deb Hermann "appear to be on-board (approving)" with financing this project to the tune of $3.6 million.


How about using some of that seemingly-available $3.6-million for redistricting- a new asphalt overlay on water-main-repair potmarked Blue Ridge Extention and/or FINISHING the 87th Street at Interstate 435 mess?

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Kansas City KS and MO in America's Top 40 Cities With Safest Drivers

One may disagree with the Allstate Insurance's "safest drivers" report for 2010- but Kansas City KS and Kansas City MO are among America's "safest drivers."

The Allstate report has KC-KS ranked as 27th safest- but they dropped from a 15 ranking in 2009.

KC-MO only dropped one place from 2009- from 30th to 31st in 2010.


The worst American city to drive in according to Allstate?

That would be Washington D.C..

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Two Companies Apply For Sugar Creek MO Casino License

Ah yes- just what Kansas Citians need- ANOTHER casino.


The INDEPENDENCE- BLUE SPRINGS- GRAIN VALLEY (Sibley?) EXAMINER reports that 2 companies are vying to win the single open casino license that's available since St. Loui's President Casino-boat closed.

The 2 companies according to that story are "Sunway Gaming LLC and Epic Gaming LLC" and one of them would build an at least $100-million casino on 200 acres of land east of M-291 and south of the Missouri River in Sugar Creek.


Heh- bet a new Sugar Creek casino would take the revenue-producing burden off their new 'speeder cameras.'

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MetroRegion K.C. News: Chillicothe MO Police Investigate Child's Torn Clothing Found in Park Restroom

Somebody reportedly found some child's ripped clothing in a male restroom in a Chillicothe park- setting off a police investigation that closed the park.

The clothing is believed that of a small female child- the police told The CHILLICOTHE CONSTITUTION-TRIBUNE on Wednesday- and the clothing appeared to have been torn or ripped.

No bodies were found after an extensive search of the park where the clothing was found.


Investigators checked area schools for possibly missing and absent students- but didn't find anything amiss yet- and the investigation continues. 

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CSW BREAKING: Bi-State-Agency Search For Missouri River Bridge Jumper

Agencies from Leavenworth KS and Platte County MO have launched a search for a person who reportedly jumped from a highway bridge over the Muddy MO...

A caller had reported a person had "jumped" from the Leavenworth KS Centennial/M-92 bridge about 9:25 p.m. Thursday evening.


Agencies involved in this search/rescue/recovery include crews- lights and boats from Leavenworth fire and police as well as the Southern Platte Fire Protection District and the Sheriff's department.

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Elementary School Student Killed by Vehicle in Gardner KS

A 7-year-old boy was killed in the street next to his elementary school around 3:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon.

(Photo courtesy of KSHB41 NBC ActionNews-Kansas City)

KSHB NBC Action News reports the child- "Kade Meyer-" was struck by a sports utility vehicle (SUV) after he ran onto Madison between two parked cars next to Madison Elementary school in Gardner where young Meyer was a student.

The boy was rushed by MEDACT-EMS to a Johnson County medical trauma center where he died.



The KSHB story does not mention if the SUV driver was cited- only that this incident is "under investigation."

CSW offers our sincere condolences to the family and friends of young Kade Meyer.

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