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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Kansas City MetroRegion Overnight News Report - Sunday - March 22, 2009

** Man Shot In East Side KC-MO **

*** Around ten minutes until 5am Saturday morning- a gunshot victim was reported at a motel in the 6000 block of East 31st Street.

Police arrived about 5 minutes later to find the victim- "a 20-year-old male"- shot twice.

The victim claimed it was a street robbery- and that the black male suspect with braided (dreds) hair and a black coat walked west on 31st Street.

MAST-EMS took the victim to a city trauma center in at least serious condition.

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** KC-MO Woman Pedestrian Lucky To Be Alive **

*** A woman reportedly in her early-40's was intoxicated- but otherwise "had no obvious injuries" after "walking into the side of a semi-truck that was moving at (freeway) speed" around 5:50am Sunday morning.

The incident happened on westbound I-70 near the beginning of the ramp to northbound I-435 just west of the Stadium Drive overpass. Parts of the roadway was closed for an investigation until a short time ago.. .

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** House Damaged By Fire In KC-MO Northland **

... Five KC-MO fire companies - at least 20 firefighters- battled a house fire in the 400 block of Northwest 81st Street just after 6:30am Sunday.

The occupancy status of the structure is not yet known- but no one was found inside and there were no firefighter injuries.

Cause is under investigation.

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** Awaiting Crash Results From Henry County-MO **

... At 4:45am Sunday- Henry County-MO sheriff reported a vehicle wreck "car submerged- the north side of Montrose Lake by the campgrounds" west of Clinton.

Nothing further on the result of this tip yet.

Other wrecks overnight- no fatalities nor critical injuries:

12:03am- KC-KS - 2-vehicles- 10th Street & Kansas Avenue- male with serious injuries.

12:30am- Grain Valley-MO- 1-vehicle- U.S. 40 & Barr- 2 non-major injuries.

1:10 am- KC-MO - 2-vehicle- 20th Street & Grand - 2 non life-threatening (NLT) injuries.

2:07am- KC-KS- 1-vehicle- Northbound I-635 ramp to eastbound I-70- male- (NLT) injuries.

2:37am- Johnson County-MO- 1-vehicle- Missouri(M)-58 east of Highway O." 25-year-old female driver flown to a KC hospital- injuries (NLT).

3:15am- North KC-MO- 1-vehicle- North Oak at M-9. One (NLT) injury.

6:39am- KC-MO- 1-vehicle- 5900 block of Noland Road." Male driver "fell asleep and drove off the road." Injuries (NLT).

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

Temperatures remained just below average highs in the middle-50's overnight while some scattered showers developed north and northeast of Metro KC-MO. Winds were south to southeasterly around 10 MPH..

A wet week is in store with some possible severe thunderstorms in the Kansas City MetroRegion Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning.