Police: one fatally shot on Amtrak train in Lee's Summit [View all]

LEE’S Summit, Mo. (AP) — One person is dead following a shooting Friday night on an Amtrak train that was stopped at a Missouri station, police said.

Police in Independence, Missouri, were called around 9:15 p.m. to the Amtrak station where they found a person who had been shot while the train had been stopped earlier at the Lee’s Summit station, said Sgt. Chris Depue, a spokesperson for the Lee’s Summit Police Department. Police are looking for the suspected shooter who is believed to have fled in Lee’s Summit, he said.

The Kansas City Star reports the train traveled north to Independence where life-saving efforts were attempted before the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.


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