Shooting wounds Kansas City employee working on trash truck Wednesday, police say
A Kansas City employee working on a trash truck crew was shot and injured Wednesday, police said.
Shortly after 12 p.m., officers responded to the nonfatal shooting in the area of East 43rd Street and Montgall Avenue in the city’s Oak Park Southwest neighborhood, according to the Kansas City Police Department.
The worker’s injures were not considered life threatening, said Capt. Dave Jackson, a police spokesman. The department does not believe the worker was targeted as a city employee or “that this has anything to do with trash collection,” Jackson said.
“With that being said, we’re not really exactly sure how all of this came to be right now,” Jackson added.
The injured worker was among three other employees actively working to collect trash, Jackson said, when they were confronted by a person who shot him.
Detectives were interviewing the victim in the hospital Wednesday afternoon, Jackson said. Police were not immediately looking for a person of interest in the shooting.
Jackson said investigators are working with the victim to determine whether the trash collector knew who shot him as well as the legal process of filing criminal charges.
This story was originally published April 7, 2021 at 2:23 PM.
