KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An Uber driver transporting supporters of Argentina’s soccer team to a World Cup match was one of four people wounded in a string of shootings in Kansas City, Missouri, police said. The violence also left one man dead.
Authorities said Thursday that a 22-year-old male suspect, considered armed and dangerous, had not yet been captured.
Police said the five shootings happened Tuesday between 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. across a roughly 5-mile area of Kansas City. Three occurred on Interstates 70 and 670 as the highways pass through downtown. Each incident took place at least 4 miles from Arrowhead Stadium, where Argentina opened with a win over Algeria.
Two American fans of Argentina, who were on their way to Tuesday’s game, told Argentine newspaper La Nación that a vehicle pulled up beside their Uber and someone fired two shots, striking the driver in the leg. The passengers said they initially believed the noise was a tire bursting before realizing the driver had been shot.
The fans said they were taken to a police station to give statements about the incident. Officers later drove them to the stadium in patrol cars. Police Capt. Jacob Becchina said the Uber driver’s injuries were not considered life-threatening.
Investigators said that shooting and two other interstate incidents happened as vehicles were traveling east, with one trip beginning in neighboring Kansas. The remaining shootings took place farther east along Truman Road, one of the city’s major routes.
Police said three adults and a minor, a teenager, were injured, and all were hospitalized, though only one adult had life-threatening injuries, Becchina said.
About 6:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a vehicle crashing into a pole along Truman Road, east of the other shootings. The driver was taken to a hospital, and workers there discovered what appeared to be a gunshot wound while treating him. He died of his injuries.
“Victims all indicated they were driving down the highway or roadway when one or more shots were fired into their vehicles,” Becchina said in an email.
Becchina said detectives believe the non-fatal shootings occurred “in close succession,” from west to east, connected by the one suspect.
Police later tracked the suspect to a home in the suburb of Independence, about 2 miles further east of where the fatal shooting victim was found, and a standoff ensued. But when police entered the home about 8 a.m. Wednesday, the suspect was not there.
Officials across the state line in Kansas City, Kansas, also have a warrant out for the suspect over a June 11 incident involving an illegal discharge of a firearm, Nancy Chartrand, the spokesperson for its police department said.
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