Month: March 2019

Kansas City, Kansas, police are asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect in an aggravated robbery and aggravated battery at 6:25 a.m. Thursday, March 14, at a gas station in the 300 block of North 18th Street, Kansas City, Kansas.

A victim was pumping gas when the suspect pistol-whipped the victim to the ground, shot him and attempted to take his vehicle, a police spokesman stated. The location is near 18th and Grandview.

The suspect fled in a light blue Ford Taurus, thought to be a year 2000 to 2007 model, police stated. The Taurus appeared to be displaying a temporary tag, according to police. The vehicle has two different rim styles on the driver’s side.

Anyone with information may call the Police Department at 913-573-6000.

An injury-accident was reported at 9:40 a.m. Wednesday, March 13, on westbound I-70 near the I-635 exit. There was rain in the area on Wednesday morning.

Two Chevy Cobalts and a Freightliner semi were traveling westbound on I-70 when the driver of the first Cobalt lost control, according to the Kansas Highway Patrol trooper’s report.

The first Cobalt struck the semi, then the first Cobalt struck the second Cobalt, according to the trooper’s report.

The driver of the second Cobalt, a 37-year-old man from Kansas City, Kansas, had a possible minor injury and was taken to a hospital, the trooper’s report stated.

The driver of the first Cobalt, a 19-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man, had no apparent injury, according to the trooper’s report.

The driver of the semi, a 20-year-old man from Garden City, Kansas, had no apparent injury, the trooper’s report said.

Although flooding is already taking place along the Missouri River at some towns north and east of Kansas City, more water is being released today into the Missouri River upstream from the Gavins Point Dam near Yankton, South Dakota.

Water releases have been increased to 50,000 cubic feet per second and will be increased to 60,000 cubic feet per second later today and Friday, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

In a news release, the Corps of Engineers stated that efforts are being made to minimize downstream impacts.

“The Corps is aware of flooding happening or forecast along the Missouri River and is working with local emergency managers to prepare for or respond to the impacts,” the Corps of Engineers stated in the news release.

The Kansas City District of the Corps of Engineers has declared a flood emergency exists within the Kansas City District, according to an announcement. The district activated its Emergency Operations Center to an Emergency Watch condition on Wednesday evening.

The Corps of Engineers may provide supplemental support to state and local entities in technical and direct assistance in response to flood emergencies, the Corps stated in a news release.

It stated that public safety was its top priority.

For more information, visit https://www.nwk.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/Article/1784874/corps-kansas-city-district-activates-emergency-operations-center-at-emergency-w/.
and https://www.nwd.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/MRRIC/News-Release-Display/Article/1785214/additional-gavins-point-releases-being-made/