Young teen critically injured in shooting Saturday afternoon in Kansas City, police say
A child was critically injured in a shooting Saturday afternoon in Kansas City, police said.
Officers were called just after 4:15 p.m. to the 2400 block of Spruce Avenue on a shooting, Officer Donna Drake, a spokeswoman with the Kansas City Police Department, said in an email.
When police arrived, they found “a large crowd of individuals” rendering aid to a victim lying in the street suffering from what appeared to be a gunshot wound, Drake said.
The victim, a “young teenage juvenile,” was taken to the hospital with critical injuries, Drake said.
No further information was immediately available.
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