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Between five and seven people were shot and one was killed in a
shooting at a home in Kansas City, where about 70-100 teens were
partying on Monday night, city police chief Karl Oakman said.
Some individuals unknown to the homeowners started shooting when
they were asked to leave, Oakman told reporters.
In Chicago, 14 people, including two children and a teenager,
were injured in a drive-by shooting, but there were no immediate
reports of deaths, Chicago police said.
Seven of the injured, including the three minors, were either in
serious or critical condition.
Two shooters, traveling in a dark SUV, shot at a group which was
standing at an intersection, police said. Thirteen were hit by
gunfire while one was struck by a vehicle, police said,
correcting an earlier statement which said that as many as 14
were shot.
Police did not identify the offenders or have any details of the
motive, Chicago police superintendent David Brown told a press
briefing.
The bloodshed follows a series of U.S. school shootings that
have left dozens dead and wounded this year alone, adding to a
long-running U.S. debate over gun control. One of the deadliest
took place in May when a gunman killed 19 children and two
adults in Uvalde, Texas.
(Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama and Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru;
Editing by Lincoln Feast and Nick Macfie)
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