Shooting In Downtown Lawrence Kills One Woman And Two Men

[SoCalMusicLover]

Source: Kansas City Star

Gunfire erupted early Sunday morning in a crowd on Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence, killing three people and wounding two others.

Among the dead was a 22-year-old Shawnee woman whose mother had told her to go to Lawrence on Saturday night to avoid violence. Also killed were two friends from Topeka, one of them a new father.

The shooting broke out on a lively night in Lawrence with Late Night in the Phog drawing a big crowd. Downtown streets filled with people going to bars, restaurants and concerts, including the #ASSJAMZ event at the Granada Theater at 1020 Massachusetts St. It was not far from there, according to one witness account, that the trouble started with a fistfight near 11th and Massachusetts about 1:40 a.m.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article176420606.html

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This really isn't so much "News" as it is Sunday in America. Population Control. Thanks NRA!

[EL34x4]

1. I wonder if the NRA will revoke the shooter's membership?

Shame too. #ASSJAMZ was billed as an all ages event.

[Plucketeer]

2. Where WERE

the "good guys with a gun"???

[Man_Bear_Pig]

7. Yeah, the police really dropped the ball not being there.

[iluvtennis]

3. Pics of two of victims

Leah Elizabeth Brown,22


Colwin Lynn Henderson III, 20 - brand new father


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Hate to say it, but wonder if this could be targeted shooting of the attendees of the hip hop concert.

[RhodeIslandOne]

12. If you mean gangs targeting people and ruining....

....everyone's night, I agree.

[SoCalMusicLover]

4. A Couple Of People Get Killed By Knife In France....

And it's Worldwide Coverage.

3 People Die in a Kansas, U.S. shooting, and it makes the local paper. And a few people comment on a popular message board.

And gun humpers will hold out the knife attack as a comparison, and justification to ban knives (joking of course). While incidents like in France happen once a month, and U.S. Fatal Shootings happen every few minutes.

[NutmegYankee]

14. It's the terrorism aspect that makes it an international story.

Otherwise, it would be a domestic crime story. Its just like with us and bombings of crowds in Africa and the Middle East. 80 people at a market can get wiped out and it won't even make the US nightly TV news. But carry out that same attack in a "western" country, and it's a 2 week News-a-thon.

[lastlib]

5. That's a block from where I used to live....

...when I went to school there! I caught the bus in the middle of that block.

The attorney I shared the house with had his office right on the corner! Would never have thought of it as a high-crime area, though I did have my bike stolen from there.

[lapfog_1]

8. me too...

jayhawk class of '80.

Used to go to breakfast for the best pancakes and eggs right down the street there.

Never thought of it as "high crime" area.

[lastlib]

13. .

you were there the same time I was (fall 79 thru fall 80). Loved the bookstore on Mass. Ave. but can't remember the name of it now. Movie theatre across the street, saw Star Trek I there.

[MuseRider]

6. Oh no.

Damn, we love to go to Lawrence and hang on Mass Ave. So many things to do, a great theater (not talking about the Granada although it is also a nice theater) and lots of awesome people always.

Of all places.

[jcmaine72]

9. When will the NRA be officially designated as the domestic terrorist group it actually is?

How many more innocent Americans have to senselessly die before we as a society finally decide to take this particular nasty bit of trash out?

[hack89]

15. Removing the NRA changes nothing

People will still own guns. Lots of them.

[Kolesar]

16. Uh, those psychos have more power than you acknowledge

Note that your friends in the RB2AGFU forum use their talking points daily.

[hack89]

17. So what happens when they magically disappear?

Support for gun rights just goes away? What does your crystal ball say?

[Kolesar]

18. you need to work on composition skills.

There is some inference in your post that I won't deconstruct.

[hack89]

19. Just trying to figure out what your point is.

wouldn't it be nice if the conversation could move beyond "Fuck the NRA"? It has to if you want actually do something.

[Kolesar]

20. You want nothing to be done.

Meanwhile NRA and the gun makers will force guns into schools and hospitals.

[hack89]

21. Considering I live in a blue state with strict gun control

you might be wrong. A state that just passed a law restricting guns in schools I might add.

I support most gun control measures with only two exceptions - AWBs and registration.
That still leaves plenty of things that can be done. Plenty of things we can agree on.

[SoCalMusicLover]

23. Screw The State Laws

We need National Laws. Which you won't have to worry about thanks to the help from YOUR NRA.

You think it's that difficult to carry firearms from one state to another? No more difficult than it was for the Vegas SOB to get the weapons he got.

Don't worry, all his guns are safe. They did their Job well. Be proud.

[hack89]

24. I guess you graduated after they stopped teaching civics. nt

[samnsara]

27. i own guns.. i have two pistols..hubby has two and a cpl...

..of rifles. I don't want to give them up but I have no objection to registering them at all if we had to.

[Rebl2]

10. Very sorry

to hear about this, but things have changed in Lawrence (and Westport as the mother talks about in the video) the last several years. There has been a lot more violence both areas. Anybody can carry a gun any more and now they can carry on campus in Kansas. Just great.

[workinclasszero]

22. NRA solution: MOAR GUNZ!!!

Full auto like in LV, yeah that's the ticket!

Fuck put a fucking silencer on the full auto assault weapons too!

FUCK YEAH USA USA USA USA!!!!!

[Blue_Tires]

25. Holy damn... Lawrence??

[CentralMass]

26. Lawrence is a tough town and has been for many years.