From KCPD: On Saturday September 20, 2008 at about 2:30am KCMO Police Officers were called to the area of 42nd and Broadway on shots fired. On arrival officers found a white female sitting in the driver’s seat of a vehicle who was suffering from at least one gunshot wound. MAST ambulance was called to the scene and pronounced the woman dead on their arrival. She was the only victim located.
No positive identification has been of the victim.
Witnesses who were in the area reported to officers that shortly after hearing the gunshots they saw several men jump into a vehicle and leave the area at a high rate of speed. The witnesses took down the vehicle occupants/license information and after broadcasting that information over the police radio, officers located a vehicle matching that same description, stopped it and took the occupants into custody.
It has not been determined if the occupants are the actual suspects in this incident. The investigation is on-going. Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 474-TIPS (8477).
Move some of them damm bone headed traffic cops to do real police work and this kind of stuff can be curved!!!
Posted by: | Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 02:52 PM
Lynn Horsley of the KC Star reports:
Police identify woman killed in Westport shooting
The woman found fatally shot early today in a car in Westport has been identified as Devin Cassidy of Leawood.
Cassidy was found sitting in the driver’s seat of a car near 42nd and Broadway at about 2:30 a.m. She had been shot at least once.
Posted by: JUNGLE JIM | Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 06:26 PM
How many murders does this make?
Posted by: Azriel | Saturday, September 20, 2008 at 10:39 PM
Young thugs once again...This is an outrage. If this doesn't put a knot in your stomach you're not human. These two need to be made an example of. Random violence like this is akin to terrorism...it makes people afraid to live their lives. Throw the book at these two and go after their friends and family too. Can we please get over the play-nice PC BS at police headquarters and do some proactive crime prevention.
Posted by: JB | Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 10:56 PM
The KCMOPD officers working the streets are understaffed because Chief Corwin has assigned most of the Officers to work DUI checkpoints and speed traps which extort money and pay those bums overtime! I have seen a lot of speedtraps recently on I-435, US-24 and SW Trafficway.. I see the "donut patrol" at QuikTrip at US24 and I-435 before they run their revenue traps.. Nice to see our taxpdollars at work!
Posted by: OJ is a felon | Monday, September 22, 2008 at 09:53 AM
Kate - You're an idiot. If the cops were present where she had been shot, those thugs wouldn't have committed their crime there - they would have gone elsewhere where there was not a police presence. Cops can't be everywhere all the time. But you probably already knew that because you're so smart.
Posted by: Ashley | Tuesday, September 23, 2008 at 11:41 AM