Two people are dead and three others were injured after a shooting in a Kansas City surface parking lot early Sunday morning.
Police were called just after 4 a.m. to 13th and Grand. There, they found a man suffering from gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Sgt. Philip DiMartino, spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department.
Officers located four additional victims at the scene, all suffering from gunshot wounds. A man and a juvenile had critical injuries, another man suffered serious injuries and a woman had non life threatening injuries, according to DiMartino.
The second adult man later died at the hospital.
On Friday, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced on Facebook that new rules on would be implemented to install more lighting, security and enclosure for parking lots downtown that are unattached to businesses in the entertainment districts, which he said can become a center or criminal activity.
“Unfortunately, in our entertainment districts, unsecured and often-unmaintained parking lots unattached to businesses are a breeding ground for crime, including shootings, drug sales, aggressive car sideshow activities and other nuisance activities that take police resources and harm neighborhood quality of life,” Lucas said in a post.
On his Instagram Story Sunday morning Lucas added, “I regret implementation couldn’t be sooner.”
Police said that preliminary information points to there being an altercation that led to shots being fired. The people killed in this incident are the 104th and 105th homicide in Kansas City this year, compared to 101 this time last year, according to data tracked by The Star, which includes officer-involved shootings.
Another person was killed a few hours earlier in a shooting at an apartment complex less than two miles from the downtown shooting.
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