A dozen gunshots are captured on video as woman is shot Sunday morning in Kansas City
Chuck Baker’s surveillance camera captured the sound of the gunshots.
The 66-year-old Kansas City man heard them too, awaking about 4:50 a.m. Sunday and sitting up in bed alerted by what sounded like someone rapping loudly on his door.
Baker looked outside, but no one was there.
He checked his home security cameras, replaying the video. He heard about a dozen loud pops, then a car without its lights on drove past his house.
Moments later, police found a woman with a gunshot wound inside a car in the 8000 block of Michigan Avenue, a few doors down from Baker. She was taken to a hospital in critical condition, according to the Kansas City Police Department.
Baker said the video showed the same car that drove off without its lights on had circled past a couple of times before the gunshots were heard.
Later in the morning, a maze of crime scene tape spanned the block between East 80th and East 81st streets.
Some neighbors poked their heads out of their front doors, still in pajamas. Cars slowed as they passed, their drivers craning their necks for a better look at the flashing lights.
“This street is usually pretty quiet,” Baker said, adding that most of the shootings he knows about happen on the other side of the Paseo.
A tow truck took the car away around 9:15 as crime scene investigators processed the scene for evidence. Officers knocked on doors at neighboring houses. One held an umbrella up in the drizzle.
Detectives were working to develop suspect information and police were canvassing the area for witnesses Sunday morning, Officer Doaa El-Ashkar said in an email.
Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to call the police department’s homicide unit at 816-234-5043 or the Crimestoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
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