Read more ... 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.
Cassie Bradshaw, 19, an employee of Target, said she was in a break room with two other people when they heard shots. She said co-workers saw a man in his 50s with a rifle “shooting everywhere.”
The mall, one of the city’s busiest shopping centers, was shut down as officers went through each store to see if anyone else might have been involved.
The victims’ names were not immediately released, and the conditions of the wounded were not immediately available.
“It was just mass chaos, as you can imagine on a Sunday in a crowded mall,” Sergeant Sanders told Reuters.
Aaron Washington, 34, another Target employee, said he was returning from lunch when he heard gunshots and saw a man holding his eye. “The man had apparently been shot,” Mr. Washington said. Breaking News by mark
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