***ONE DEAD- ONE CRITICAL IN KC-MO SHOOTING ****** A man is dead and another has critical injuries after a shooting on the west Downtown Loop early Saturday morning.
A Center-Zone officer reports hearing shots-fired "in the area of 8th (Street) and Mulberry in the West Bottoms about a minute before a call came into the 9-1-1 center- at 1:54am- reporting a shooting at 12th Street and Jefferson.
Another officer arrives at the shooting scene as the dispatch ends to find 2 people shot.
One of those victims died at the scene after C.P.R. was attempted.
The 2nd victim- "a male in his 20's" was "shot twice in the head and once in the chest" and was rushed by MAST-EMS to an area trauma center.
Police report finding "shell casings" on the bridge over I-35 a block west and close 12th Street for a crime scene- but as of yet have no suspect information.
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** TWO INJURED IN SEPARATE SHOOTINGS IN KC-MO
*** The Guns of Kansas City were blazing elsewhere as well...
... Police- MAST & Fire was sent to the scene of a "drive-by" shooting at 49th Street and South Benton in the South-Midtown area at 1:28am. PD reports an 18-year-old male was the victim- "shot in the leg." His injuries were not life-threatening. later.
... The last shooting victim heard this Saturday morning was driven to a KC-MO medical center. Their injuries were unknown- but the victim is reported to have said the gunshot was incurred "at 33rd Street and Highland" in Midtown.
There was no suspect information in either incident.
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* STREET WET-DOWN FOR FILMING GOES AWRY *
*** About 12:30am this morning- KC-MO Fire Department Pumper 10 was called out on a non-emergency call "to wet-down the street- (a production crew is) filming a commercial at 18th Street and Vine."
About 20 minutes later- Pumper 10 calls dispatch to report "a water (main) broke under the street and (the street is) in danger of breaking-up." The Water Department was requested "emergency."
Appropriate if the commercial being filmed was for an insurance company....
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<><><> OVERNIGHT WEATHER <><> <>
A pleasant late summer morning throughout the Kansas City MetroRegion.
Skies ranged from mostly clear in the north- to mostly cloudy in the south. Temperatures ranged from near 60 north to the upper-60's south and in the Metro heat-island.
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