KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man and a woman died Wednesday night in a shooting after an argument with several other people in the street in a south Kansas City, Missouri, neighborhood.
Police officers were sent just after 9 p.m. to the 9600 block of Fremont Avenue on reports of a shooting.
Neighbors took the officers to a driveway where the man and woman were suffering from gunshot wounds, according to police.
The victims died at the scene.
Police say an argument in the street between several people turned into a physical fight before someone pulled a gun and killed two people.
The suspect got away, but police told KSHB 41 reporter Isabella Ledonne at the scene that there is no evidence of danger to the community.
This was the 64th homicide of the year in Kansas City, Missouri.
10 of those homicides have occurred in the south Kansas City area, according to KCPD crime statistics.
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