Gun fired after dispute over a non-injury crash in Westport in Kansas City
Police were investigating an aggravated assault that happened late Saturday in Westport after someone fired a gun following a dispute over a possible non-injury crash, Kansas City police said in a news release.
Police responded about 10 p.m. Saturday to Fidel’s Cigar Shop at 4112 Pennsylvania Ave. on a reported shooting. When officers arrived, they discovered that no one had been shot, police said.
However, a victim told police that a shot had been fired during a dispute over a non-injury accident, police said. The victim said the person who fired the gun had pointed it at him and then fired a single shot into the air.
The suspect fled the area prior to police arriving.
Anyone with information about the crime is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).
The assault came two weeks after a shooting in Westport left one man dead and four other people injured.
Jackson County prosecutors have charged two men — Ernest P. Jones Jr., 23, and Devon L. Carter, 25, both of Kansas City, Kansas — in that shooting, which occurred Feb. 29 at MIll Street near Westport Road.
The shooting, which killed Devin Harris, 17, stemmed from an altercation that occurred earlier that evening during a birthday celebration inside the Throwback nightclub.
