A 25-year-old woman was killed and 15 people were injured outside a Kansas City nightclub when a gunman let loose a barrage of shots before being gunned down by a security guard, authorities say.
According to police, a line had formed to get into the bar when the suspect started shooting into the line of people.A 25-year-old woman was killed and 15 people were injured outside a Kansas City, Missouri, nightclub on Sunday night when a gunman let loose a barrage of shots before he was gunned down by a security guard, authorities said on Monday.
In this image made from video, a police vehicle passes with sirens near the scene of a shooting, Jan. 20, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo. Police say at least two people are dead and upwards of a dozen people may have been injured in a shooting outside a bar."We've said a few times that it is an epidemic of gun violence. We're losing too many lives. We have too many people shot each year," the mayor said.
"This club had come up previously. We knew it was an issue at some other points of time in the past," Smith said, noting that a drive-by shooting occurred outside the club last week."Officers had done a check of the parking lot and were less than a minute out when we received our first call. So we had just been there.""We had hundreds of people fleeing both in cars and on foot," Smith said.
In this image made from video, a police vehicle passes with sirens near the scene of a shooting, Jan. 20, 2020, in Kansas City, Mo. Police say at least two people are dead and upwards of a dozen people may have been injured in a shooting outside a bar.
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