Police are investigating after a shooting at Oak Park Mall late Sunday afternoon in Overland Park.A spokesperson for the Overland Park Police Debarment confirmed the shooting, along with the involvement of two police officers, just before 5 p.m. A public information officer with Overland Park police told KMBC that two people are in custody and that no injuries have been reported as a result of the incident. According to the PIO, a single shot was fired after a confrontation between two officers and two suspected shoplifters. One of the shoplifting suspects is believed to have fired the shot after getting ahold of an officer’s firearm while they were being apprehended. The second shoplifting suspect ran out of the mall and was taken into custody by a plainclothes police officer.KMBC spoke with a mother and daughter who said they were inside the mall when the shooting occurred. The family members said they fled out of an employee entrance of the mall after hearing a single gunshot near the food court. This is a developing story, and this article will be updated with additional information as it is made available. This is the second shooting at a mall in the Kansas City area within the span of just a few days. The reported shooting at Oak Park Mall comes just a few days after four people were shot at the Independence Center.
Police are investigating after a shooting at Oak Park Mall late Sunday afternoon in Overland Park.
A spokesperson for the Overland Park Police Debarment confirmed the shooting, along with the involvement of two police officers, just before 5 p.m.
A public information officer with Overland Park police told KMBC that two people are in custody and that no injuries have been reported as a result of the incident.
According to the PIO, a single shot was fired after a confrontation between two officers and two suspected shoplifters. One of the shoplifting suspects is believed to have fired the shot after getting ahold of an officer’s firearm while they were being apprehended.
The second shoplifting suspect ran out of the mall and was taken into custody by a plainclothes police officer.
KMBC spoke with a mother and daughter who said they were inside the mall when the shooting occurred. The family members said they fled out of an employee entrance of the mall after hearing a single gunshot near the food court.
This is a developing story, and this article will be updated with additional information as it is made available.
This is the second shooting at a mall in the Kansas City area within the span of just a few days. The reported shooting at Oak Park Mall comes just a few days after four people were shot at the Independence Center.