The Kansas City MetroRegion Overnight News and Weather Report - Saturday, June 23, 2007

*** KC-MO SHOOT-OUT LEAVES ONE CRITICAL- ONE SERIOUSLY INJURED ***

That's how police described the scene early Saturday morning near 33rd Street and College.

It was around 3:45 am- when apparently a car pulled up in front of a house in the 3200 block of College and opened fire. And- reportedly- those at the house under siege returned fire.

From the College scene- MAST-EMS transported 2 males with gunshot wounds. One was shot 5 times according to paramedics enroute to the city's public trauma center- that "22-year-old male" was in critical condition. The 2nd victim was shot in the arm- fracturing the bone- and was in serious condition.

Only suspect information heard was they were in a maroon-colored sedan.

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Other overnight shootings in KC-MO:

At 12:47 am - 53rd Street and Paseo where a male with non life-threatening injuries met a police officer. Victim says he was shot around 59th Street and Park.

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A short time later- shots are fired into an occupied vehicle at 63rd Street and Prospect. One female occupant receives minor injuries.

Then the suspect vehicle is found around 1 am by police- unoccupied- with "an AK-47" nearby- at 58th Street and Brooklyn. The male suspect was not located.

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Around 1:40 am- a man reported he was shot in the foot by the occupant of a passing car in the 2500 block of Rochester. His wound was not life-threatening.

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***KC-KS DEATH POSSIBLY ACCIDENTAL***

... That's the latest word from police after a call at 2:32 am to the 300 block of South 11th Street.

Police found a man dead on the ground outside a building in an apartment complex there. The call first was dispatched as "an unconscious" person- the a "possible shooting."

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** CAR CRASHES INTO A HOUSE IN INDEPENDENCE-MO **

... No other details other than it happened around 2:50 am in the 1500 block of West College. Two AMR-EMS units were sent for "not life-threatening" injuries- but there are no further details.

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* KC-KS HOUSE BURNS *

... Early in the Midnight Hour the call came in for a house on fire on North 38th Street and Montadon Lane.

Firefighters arrived to a heavily fire-involved 1-story vacant structure that was extinguished within the next 30 minutes with no injuries.

Arson suspected.

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

Showers and thunderstorms moved southward through the Kansas City MetroRegion late Friday night and early Saturday morning.

No reports of any severe weather besides that boat accident on Smithville Lake Friday night. Near old Bannister Mall in southeast-central KC-MO- 1.4-inches of rain has been measured since midnight here at the NewsCenter.

Only scattered light showers remain at sunup with light winds and temperatures in the 60's.

More scattered showers and storms are expected to develop with the daytime heating in the MetroRegion this afternoon into this evening.

Deadly cloud to ground lightning- very heavy rain and small hail will be the main threats in the heavier thunderstorms.
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