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Shots fired, large fights terrorize Kansas City Zoo goers
KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV)
As police continue on Wednesday to investigate Tuesday's violence at the Kansas City Zoo, city leaders are looking at changes to the zoo's free admission days for residents of Jackson and Clay counties.
Kansas City Zoo goers described Tuesday afternoon running for their lives after hundreds of teens were involved in fights inside the zoo and shots were fired in a zoo parking lot.
"It was very scary," Liberty resident Jaimi Heckadon said. "All hell broke loose." . . .
Mayor Sly James emphatically said Wednesday that "we had young people who were misbehaving badly." However, he does not believe violence at the Country Club Plaza involving large groups of youth and Tuesday's violence at the Kansas City Zoo are connected, saying they are isolated incidents.
"It's not my job to take separate incidents that happened in one part of town and one that happened in another part of town for purposes of trying to create something else.Those are separate incidents. They weren't the same people involved. It wasn't the same place or the same time or circumstances," he said.
However, some of innocent patrons caught up in the violence say they believe the Plaza violence and Tuesday's violence at the zoo are connected and the city must do more to ensure families can be safe when going to Kansas City's top attractions. . . .
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