Argentina fans saw Uber driver shot before World Cup match in Kansas City
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- Argentina fans said the Uber they were in was shot at twice before the match.
- Police said four people were wounded in separate shootings at multiple locations.
- A manhunt is underway for 22-year-old Carlos Sanchez-Munoz, who remained at large.
Two Argentina soccer fans told an international newspaper they were witnesses to the shooting of an Uber driver in Kansas City before Tuesday’s match against Algeria.
A video posted on social media by La Nacion, a newspaper based in Buenos Aires, shows a reporter with witnesses who recounted the events leading up to the shooting.
One of the witnesses said they were riding in the Uber when their car was shot at twice by someone who drove past them.
“A car was coming, a car passed next to us,” the witness said in Spanish. “They shot twice, we thought that they flattened the tire.”
“They braked the car, and I saw the leg, and it had a pretty big hole,” he said. “We called the police, the police came.”
The reporter asked the witnesses if the person who shot at the car were thieves. The witness said they didn’t know, and that they were later interviewed by police.
Another witness at the scene, a woman, said police believed the shooting to be related to other shootings from Tuesday night.
“They don’t know, but it seems that this happened to three other cars,” she said, also speaking Spanish. “They took us to the police. We had to give a statement.”
“They brought us here in a patrol car. Yes, horrible,” she said.
Search for alleged shooter continues
The male witness from the video appeared to be Alejandro Berbari, who told KSHB that he came to Kansas City from Miami with his wife and friends for the World Cup.
Kansas City police confirmed at a press conference Wednesday night that an Uber driver was among three other living victims believed to be shot by the same man, KSHB first reported.
Police Chief Stacey Graves said after their Uber was shot, the Argentina fans got a ride from officers to the stadium.
Police say four people were wounded Tuesday in separate shootings at Interstate 670 and Wyoming Street, Interstate 70 and Paseo Boulevard, I-70 and Prospect Avenue, and at Truman Road and Hardesty Avenue. Another man died after his vehicle crashed at Truman Road and Bennington Avenue, but he was later discovered to have a gunshot wound.
The shootings took place about eight miles from Kansas City Stadium, which is hosting six World Cup matches this year. Police said there were no other known ties between the shootings and the World Cup. In a press conference Wednesday night, Graves said detectives have not yet identified a motive in the shootings.
A man hunt is underway for one man who police think was involved in all the shootings, 22-year-old Carlos Sanchez-Munoz.
Police conducted two separate standoffs as part of their search for Sanchez-Munoz, one in Independence and one in Kansas City.
As of Thursday afternoon, he has not been taken into custody.
Sanchez-Munoz has an outstanding warrant for his arrest out of Kansas City, Kansas, for his alleged involvement in a previous aggravated assault on June 11.
Anyone who sees Sanchez-Munoz is asked to call 911 immediately. Anyone with information regarding his whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers anonymous TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).
