Two people were killed and another injured in a shooting that involved a Kansas City Police officer on Friday night in the city in Missouri, US. According to an AP report, the incident occurred after the police called for backup near a McDonald’s restaurant in eastern Kansas City. The officers who responded found five people, the first officer near a white van and three occupants who had been shot. Two of them had been killed and another was injured, the report said.
Marcell T. Nelson, 42, of Kansas City, and Kristen Fairchild, 42, of Gardner, both died. The third victim suffered minor injuries. Two others were detained. The officer was not hurt.
Missouri State Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Andy Bell told the media that investigators are working to determine what happened before the backup call was made and whether anyone else besides the office had fired a gun, a handgun was also found at the scene.
“There’s not a lot of information we can share,” Bell said Friday night, as per the AP. “It’s very, very early in the investigation.”
Boone County Shooting, Two Dead
This incident comes days after another shooting that took place in Boone County, Missouri when two teenagers were fatally shot and four other teens were injured during a party at a vacant house.
The Boone County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies had responded to a gun firing call made at 1 am at the house in Columbia, about 35 miles north of Jefferson City, according to CNN.
It is believed that a verbal altercation between two groups led to the gunfire. The two deceased were 16 and 17 years old. Meanwhile, four other teens between ages 16 and 19 were injured and have non-life-threatening injuries, CNN reported the sheriff’s office as saying.
The incident is among the 275 mass shootings thus far in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as having four or more deaths or injuries not including the shooter.