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Shooting at Kansas City Shopping Center Leaves Three Dead

Posted Apr 29, 07 5:15 PM CDT in US 

(Newser) – A young man wielding a rifle opened fire in the parking lot of a Kansas City shopping center this afternoon, killing two people  and wounding at least two others before he ran into the mall and was gunned down by police. Fifteen minutes before the mall shootings, the gunman also wounded a police officer who pulled over the car he was driving.

The car was registered to an elderly woman found dead in her home a few miles away about an hour earler. "It appears that he came to the mall to shoot people," Sgt. Tony Sanders, a Kansas City police spokesman, told CNN. "Whether it was random or not we do not know."

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Kansas City police stand at the entrance of a store in the Ward Parkway shopping center in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, April 29, 2007. The center was the scene of a shooting that killed three including...   (Associated Press)
Kansas City, Mo. police close down the parking lot at Ward Parkway shopping center in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, April 29, 2007. A man driving a dead woman's car shot a police officer, then opened fire...   (Associated Press)
An unidentified Kansas City, Mo. police officer guards an entrance to Ward Parkway shopping center in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, April 29, 2007. The shooting at the mall left at least three people dead,...   (Associated Press)
This graphic locates the Ward Parkway Center in Kansas City, Mo. A gunman shot a police officer, then opened fire in the parking lot and inside the mall Sunday, April 29, 2007, authorities said. By the...   (Associated Press)
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