Victim shot during gunfire among relatives Sunday outside Kansas City funeral home
A person was shot Sunday evening in the parking lot of a funeral home in south Kansas City when gunshots rang out during a fight among relatives, police said.
Officers responded to the shooting about 5:15 p.m. at Serenity Funeral Home in the 1100 block of East Bannister Road, according to the Kansas City Police Department.
Detectives determined numerous people were attending a funeral when several family members got into a verbal dispute that turned physical. That’s when several people fired shots at each other in a large group in the parking lot, police said.
The victim arrived at a hospital with gunshot wounds that were not considered life threatening.
Police had not released suspect information as of Sunday night.
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