50-year-old John Anderton was killed after “an exchange of some sort” with police on Feb. 3. Officers had been called on reports of a drug overdose, but alleged to have witnessed Anderton flee the scene.
Kansas City police records showed the lounge owner called twice at 1:04 a.m. to report an emergency. But police did not arrive until shooting broke out over twenty minutes later.
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“This is how our city is. You just walk by and someone’s on the ground from being shot,” said Mario Williams, the lounge’s owner, of the gun violence around the metro.
A fatal shooting on Kansas City’s East Side Friday keeps the city on pace for its deadliest year. So far this year, there have been 100 homicides, according to data tracked by The Star, which includes fatal police shootings.