Two killed in Kansas City mall shooting: US media

AFP
Monday, April 30, 2007

At least two people were killed Sunday when a gunman opened fire at a shopping mall center in Kansas City, Missouri, US media reported.

The gunfire sent shoppers scrambling for cover at the Ward Parkway Center, a shopping plaza about nine miles (14 kilometers) south of downtown Kansas City in the midwestern state of Missouri, local reports said.

Kansas City Fire Department Battalion Chief Joe Vitale told CNN that the dead included the original shooter. Two or three other people were wounded in the shooting, he said.

One shopper, Cathy Crist, told the Kansas City Star newspaper she had been eating lunch inside the mall when she heard shots that seemed to come from the parking lot outside.

She heard women scream, "Hes killing us," before she dove under a table for cover, the report said.

The shootings came less than two weeks after a mentally ill South Korean college student went on a shooting rampage at Virginia Tech university, killing 32 people before turning his weapon on himself.

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