One killed, four injured in Kansas City shooting as police launch search for gunman

At least one person has died and four injured at a shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday night. 

Police arrived at the scene of the shooting in the 18th and Vine district shortly after 10 p.m, but were unable to locate the gunman. 

Kansas City Police Department Public Information Officer Donna Drake said the shooting had started as a result of an argument.

At least one person has died and four injured at a shooting in Kansas City, Missouri, on Sunday night

Drake said a fight had broken out at a business in the district, leading to the shooting ten minutes later. 

She said officers arrived to a ‘large, hectic scene’ with multiple victims.  

Officers were responding to separate reports of gun shots when they were diverted to the site of the shooting. 

Four people were taken to a nearby hospital, where one victim succumbed to his wounds. 

Kansas City Police Department Public Information Officer Donna Drake said the shooting had started as a result of an argument

Police arrived at the scene of the shooting in the 18th and Vine district shortly after 10 p.m

A fifth person later turned up at the hospital with a broken leg, police said, suggesting the victim had sustained the injury while fleeing the shots. 

The four people are in a stable and non-life threatening condition, Drake said.  

Drake termed the latest shooting ‘tragic’.

‘Think about how many lives are affected here… it’s senseless. This is inexcusable… there is no reason for this’, she said. 

Police combed the scene for evidence on Sunday. Drake called for anyone who witnessed the shooting to come forward.  

Sunday’s shooting is the 47th homicide in Kansas City since the start of 2021. 

Mayor Quinton Lucas tweeted his condolences over the incident on Sunday.  

‘Disappointed and angered to hear of more Kansas Citians struck by gunfire tonight’, he wrote.

‘This evening it’s in my neighborhood, but too many have been impacted just this weekend, this year, and in recent years. Praying for the victims, continuing to work to see an end to this epidemic’. 

Kansas City Police Department Public Information Officer Donna Drake said Sunday’s shooting was the 47th homicide in Kansas City since the start of 2021 (file photo, Kansas Police)