A shooting was reported on Friday morning near 54th and Leavenworth Road, according to the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department. The victim of the shooting was in critical condition, police stated. A victim was shot at the parking lot of a grocery store at 54th and Leavenworth Road. Part of the grocery store’s parking lot was taped off. A grocery store at 55th and Leavenworth Road was closed on Friday morning after reports of a shooting in the parking lot.
Kansas City, Kansas police responded to a shooting about 9:03 a.m. Oct. 11 in the 5400 block of Leavenworth Road, according to a police spokesman.
The shooting victim was a male who had been shot, according to police. The victim was taken to a hospital with critical injuries, police stated.
According to a police spokesman, the shooting was in the parking lot of the Happy Foods North grocery store at 55th and Leavenworth Road. There was a disturbance in the parking lot before the shooting happened, according to police.
Police stated they have not yet confirmed a motive for the shooting.
The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Division is investigating. Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
Temperatures might get to the freezing point tonight and Saturday morning. (National Weather Service graphic)Wyandotte County and the surrounding area are under a freeze warning from midnight tonight to 9 a.m. Saturday. (National Weather Service graphic)
The first freeze of the season is possible on early Saturday morning, as temperatures today are dropping about 30 degrees from Thursday.
The low on Friday night through early Saturday morning is forecast at 32 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The freeze warning is for midnight tonight through 9 a.m. Saturday.
Today’s forecast includes gusty westerly winds and much cooler temperatures today, with highs in the 40s.
Residents may want to protect tender plants now from the cold.
Outdoor water pipes should be wrapped, drained or allowed to drip slowly. Residents who have in-ground sprinkler systems should drain them and cover above-ground pipes to protect them from freezing.
A flood warning continues for the Missouri River above Parkville, where the gauge is on I-435 over the Missouri River between Wyandotte and Platte counties, according to the weather service. The river is in minor flood stage at that point. The Kansas River at 23rd Street, where the gauge is at Kansas Avenue and the state line, is below minor flood stage and below action stage.
Today, it will be sunny with a high near 47 and a west northwest wind of 8 to 16 mph, gusting to 26 mph, the weather service said.
Tonight, it will be clear with a low around 32 and a west southwest wind of 6 to 8 mph, according to the weather service.
Saturday, it will be sunny with a high near 63 and a southwest wind of 8 to 17 mph, gusting as high as 31 mph, the weather service said.
Saturday night, it will be clear, with a low of 40 and a southwest wind of 5 to9 mph, gusting as high as 24 mph, according to the weather service.
Sunday, it will be sunny with a high near 63 and a calm wind, the weather service said.
Sunday night, it will be clear with a low of 41, according to the weather service.
On Monday, Columbus Day, it will be sunny with a high near 70, the weather service said.
Monday night, it will be partly cloudy with a low of 52, according to the weather service.
Tuesday, it will be mostly sunny with a high near 64, the weather service said.
Tuesday night, it will be mostly clear, with a low of 39, according to the weather service.
Wednesday, it will be sunny with a high near 57, the weather service said.
Wednesday night, it will be mostly clear, with a low of 41, according to the weather service.
Thursday, it will be mostly sunny, with a high near 65, the weather service said.
The Missouri River above Parkville, where the gauge is on I-435 over the Missouri River between Wyandotte and Platte counties, is in minor flood stage. (National Weather Service – USGS graphic)The Kansas River at 23rd Street, where the gauge is near Kansas Avenue and the state line, is currently below minor flood stage and below action stage. (National Weather Service – USGS graphic)
More than 50 people stood up at Tuesday night’s meeting on municipal identification cards and said they would attend upcoming Unified Government Commission meetings. (Photo by Mary Rupert)
by Mary Rupert
Municipal identification card advocates on Tuesday night said they would take their issue to upcoming Unified Government Commission meetings.
At an event Tuesday night at the First Baptist Church, 2900 Minnesota Ave., more than 50 people stood up when asked if they would attend upcoming UG meetings in support of the municipal identification card idea. They also pledged to participate in a letter-writing campaign, phone call campaign and other message campaigns to UG officials.
“Here in Wyandotte County, we must build a welcoming environment that allows for all residents to thrive,” Irene Caudillo, president and CEO of El Centro, said at the event Tuesday. More than 30 local organizations are sponsoring the effort to get the ordinance passed.
Irene Caudillo of El Centro said this safe and welcoming initiative could bring the community closer together. (Photo by Mary Rupert)
She said the proposed safe and welcoming ordinance can bring the community closer together.
It has two parts, said Diosselyn Tot, the lead organizer for El Centro. The first is the municipal ID card ordinance. The second is a provision that states that local police and sheriff’s officers will not work with federal immigration authorities. She said this is necessary so those who sign up will have their information protected.
She said one in five persons in Wyandotte County, about 30,000 people, are in need of an ID card. These cards, issued by the local government, could be used by anyone who would accept them to access health services and other services, she said.
Diosselyn Tot, an organizer with El Centro, said one in five persons in Wyandotte County are in need of an identification card. (Photo by Mary Rupert)
Tot said the effort has collected more than 2,000 postcards from residents in support of municipal ID and has knocked on more than 5,000 doors in the community.
It isn’t the first time the municipal ID ordinance has been proposed here. It has been discussed for about two years, but efforts did not get anywhere at the UG Commission level.
There have been some meetings with commissioners. According to the coalition, the mayor has said he would hear the issue after budgeting was over in August.
“The time for action is now,” Tot said at the Tuesday night event.
The group on Tuesday also heard from a student who recently graduated from Sumner Academy and is an immigrant.
“I was not allowed into my own high school prom because I could not get ahold of my Mexican passport,” the student told the group.
If the ordinance passes, the lack of an ID will no longer be an issue, and those who live here will be able to own their own homes, open a bank account and register their children at school, she said.
“I will no longer have to be embarrassed when I am asked for an ID,” she said. “We don’t need to live with fear in our communities.”
At that forum, incumbent Commissioner Harold Johnson, 4th District, said he supported the municipal ID program. Incumbent Commissioner Melissa Bynum, 1st District at large, said the idea of municipal identification cards could be useful here in Wyandotte County, and potentially benefit different populations, including senior citizens. She still had some questions about the ID program, she said at the forum, and would need assurance from other institutions that they would recognize it as a valid form of identification if the UG leads an effort to develop it.
While all the UG Commission meetings on Thursdays are open to the public, as a usual rule the public may speak only when there is a public hearing scheduled on a particular topic, and it is up to the mayor to put items on the agenda. The next UG meeting on a Thursday is Oct. 17 at City Hall.
Local resident J.D. Rios, a former member of the Kansas City Kansas Community College Board of Trustees who ran for UG commissioner in a previous election and who supports efforts to help immigrants, attended the Tuesday night meeting and was asked what he thought about the chances this issue would have to move forward at the UG Commission level.
