Kansas City officials want to crack down on teenagers that have overrun an upscale mall after a gunman took pot shots as the city’s mayor spoke to a group there, wounding three. Hit the jump to read the rest of the story.
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Mayor Sly James’ bodyguards tackled him into a flower bed outside a restaurant at the Country Club Plaza as five or six bullets ripped into the crowd about 11 p.m. Saturday, the Kansas City Star reported.
The mayor, who was not harmed, had been talking to local teens about recent late-night violence at the outdoor Missouri plaza when the gunman opened fire.
A 15-year-old girl and two boys, one 13 and the other 16, were wounded in the brazen shooting, police said.
The girl’s face was grazed by a bullet; the two boys each suffered a leg wound. All three were hospitalized and are expected to recover. Police did not release their names, the paper reported.
James called the incident a “bizarre and surreal set of circumstances” and vowed to control the teenage troublemakers who cause mayhem at the plaza at night.
“We can’t have mobs of kids gathering and shooting other kids on public streets,” James said Sunday.
Business owners have asked for a 9 p.m. curfew to be enforced at the plaza, but James was lukewarm on the idea.
“We can’t expect that imposing a curfew is going to stop some 15-, 16-, 17-year-old from bringing a gun to anywhere,” he told the Star.
