The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — According to the victim’s step-daughter, the gunman who drove a dead woman’s car to a Kansas City mall Sunday and killed two people was a neighbor who talked about “shooting up people.” Pam Reed says the man once asked to borrow her stepmother’s gun, but the woman refused. Reed also says the man talked about “Vietnam stuff” for many years.
Police say the man was shot to death by officers outside a Target department store Sunday after killing two people in the mall parking lot. Police haven’t said if the man is a suspect in the death of the woman whose car he was driving but they do think the events are connected.
Police say the Ward Parkway Center was crowded with hundreds of people at the time, now, they say, it’s a “giant crime scene.”
Police are reviewing surveillance tapes and interviewing droves of witnesses