*** MORE SERIOUS INJURIES IN WESTPORT ****** It's been two nights in a row now where people have suffered critical injuries in KC-MO's Westport area.
Saturday morning- 2 men were critically-injured in a shooting. This morning- it was a pedestrian run over by a hit and run driver.
At 3:01am- a police officer on patrol in Westport is told by a witness that a man had been run over in an alley behind Harpo's in the 4100 block of Pennsylvania. That witness says the black sports-utility vehicle that struck and dragged the man a short distance under the vehicle drove off.
While that officer takes information and tends to the "seriously-injured" victim- another officer a short distance away has the suspect vehicle sighted. That vehicle is stopped and the driver arrested.
The man who was struck apparently never regained consciousness after he was hit- as MAST-EMS took "the approximately 30-year-old male" to a local trauma center with head and other injuries including a fractured leg. His condition was classed as critical.
While NBC41 Action News photographer Michael Butler was on the hit & run scene- there was an armed street robbery then 3 people assaulted nearby according to police and MAST reports.
Unfortunately- Mr. Butler couldn't clone himself and his equipment in time to shoot those scenes.
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*** It sounded like a riot going on as a Center Zone police officer asked for assistance dealing with a "large disturbance" at the MG's Club in the 200 block of East Admiral Boulevard at 1:36am Sunday morning.
I lost count at 16 cars from Center Zone and 2 other patrol districts responding to the Downtown location. The assist-the-officer call was not cancelled until more than 20 minutes later.
Police "cleared the club" and "closed" it. Two people were assaulted in the melee requiring an ambulance and up to 5 people were arrested. No police officers were reported to be injured.
Nearly all police patrol divisions were "blacked-out" or had no readily-available officers for calls much of the morning. "Self-initiated" police officer functions were not resumed until 5:40am.
In addition- MAST-EMS was reduced to as little as one ambulance covering the 318 square miles of Kansas City at one point early Sunday morning. There are only 15 in-service EMS units in-service as it is.
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** BREAKING NEWS: FATALITY WRECK IN KC-MO **
... There has been a single vehicle/fatality wreck on the southbound Broadway Extention near the north end of the Downtown Airport.
The call went out at 6:10am. When emergency crews arrived- they found a person had been ejected from the wrecked vehicle and was lying in the roadway. C.P.R. was attempted on the patient but they were declared dead shortly after 6:30am.
Southbound Broadway Extention/U.S. 169- is closed near M-9 highway. No other details.
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<><><> OVERNIGHT WEATHER <><> <>
The season's first frost and freeze came to many northern and western locations of the Kansas City MetroRegion this morning.
Mostly clear skies and calm winds allowed temperatures to plunge into the upper-20's in Lawrence and St. Joseph with lower-30's reported as far south as and Knob Noster.
Temperatures in the Metro itself were generally in the upper 30's as of 6am.
A warming trend will prevail this week- until the next frontal system crosses the are Wednesday or Thursday.
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