KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 29 (AP) — A shooting at a shopping center here on Sunday afternoon left three people dead, including the gunman, the police said.
An elderly woman found dead earlier in the day may also have been killed by the gunman, the police said.
The authorities said they went to a home early Sunday afternoon to check on the woman, whom relatives had not seen for days. She was found dead and her car was missing, said a police spokesman, Tony Sanders.
The car was spotted later in the day by a police officer, who pulled the driver over and was shot in the arm, the police said. The officer, whose wound was not life-threatening, returned fire and shattered a car window.
The car left the scene and was later spotted at the mall, the Ward Parkway Center in southern Kansas City. The police said the man shot four people in the parking lot, two fatally, then went inside.
The gunman was shot to death by the police inside the mall.
The police did not say how the elderly woman died or whether the gunman was a suspect in her death. But they did say they believed that the events were connected.
That quiet sound you hear is me shaking my head. How many more of these do we need before something changes? How many more?
