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One particular person was killed and as many as six others injured in a capturing Monday evening at a Halloween social gathering in a house in Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, police stated.
As many as 100 excessive school-aged college students have been gathered on the house when a bunch of uninvited visitors was requested to go away and at the very least one particular person opened fireplace, Kansas Metropolis Police Chief Karl Oakman stated throughout a information convention, in keeping with CNN affiliate KMBC.
The suspects have been in a darkish or grey SUV, Oakman added. There have been no arrests Monday evening.
The gunfire was one more instance of how gun violence so often interrupts American life in locations historically seen as secure, from schools to stores to hospitals and even funerals. Additionally Monday evening, at the very least 13 individuals have been shot in a drive-by shooting in Chicago at busy nook the place individuals had gathered for a vigil, police stated.
In Kansas Metropolis, the police chief voiced his frustration with the violence, calling the capturing disturbing and unacceptable.
“These things locally has to cease. There are far too many weapons out right here. This was a celebration with excessive school-aged college students,” Oakman stated. “Everybody has weapons now. We must be smarter than this.”
That capturing was reported simply after 9 p.m., when the uninvited visitors have been requested to go away, the chief stated. Not less than one particular person within the group started firing into the social gathering crowd, Oakman stated.
“The owners requested them to go away. As they left, they began capturing up the home, capturing randomly,” he stated.
Not less than two of the injured have been in vital situation, Oakman stated.
Details about the social gathering had been posted on social media, and it was “invite-only,” he famous.
