- 07 Oct 2019 15:05
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There was a mass shooting that happened early Sunday morning and for once the anti-second amendment extremist media doesn't seem to care much about it.
I haven't seen the wall to wall hysterical coverage that they gave to the El Paso shooting. I haven't seen any presidential candidates like Frances O'Rourke come out and express sympathy for the victims; two of which happened to be Mexican nationals. I haven't seen any of the typical broadcasts showing flowers set up outside of the bar where the shooting occurred and no interviews with crying victims or witnesses.
I wonder why that is.
Slowly, but still quietly, the vigils and interviews from witnesses are starting to come out. Still nothing like the El Paso shooting, which the media absolutely loved.
You can't help but wonder whether or not shooting suspects Javier Alatorre and Hugo Villanueva-Morales are in this country legally or if they are undocumented immigrants.
Survivor of deadly Kansas bar shooting recalls "bodies dropping" and "bone-chilling" screams
I haven't seen the wall to wall hysterical coverage that they gave to the El Paso shooting. I haven't seen any presidential candidates like Frances O'Rourke come out and express sympathy for the victims; two of which happened to be Mexican nationals. I haven't seen any of the typical broadcasts showing flowers set up outside of the bar where the shooting occurred and no interviews with crying victims or witnesses.
I wonder why that is.
Kansas City, Kansas police have identified two suspects in an early morning shooting Sunday that killed four people and injured five others.
KCK police responded to the shooting just before 1:30 a.m. at the Tequila KC Bar near 10th and Central. Police found four people dead inside the business and five outside with injuries all due to gunshots. The five injured are reported to be in stable condition.
Suspect Javier Alatorre was arrested near 26th and Quincy in Kansas City, Missouri on Sunday.
Suspect Hugo Villanueva-Morales is still wanted by police.
It’s not publicly known if Villanueva-Morales traveled outside the KCK area. Joplin-Pittsburg is approximately two hours south of where the mass shooting occurred.
Both have been charged with four counts of first degree murder. Preliminary investigation reveals that an earlier dispute occurred inside the bar which lead to the shooting. The suspects were armed with handguns and fled the scene, according to police.
Anyone with information is asked to call the KCK TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS (8477).
Slowly, but still quietly, the vigils and interviews from witnesses are starting to come out. Still nothing like the El Paso shooting, which the media absolutely loved.
You can't help but wonder whether or not shooting suspects Javier Alatorre and Hugo Villanueva-Morales are in this country legally or if they are undocumented immigrants.
Survivor of deadly Kansas bar shooting recalls "bodies dropping" and "bone-chilling" screams
A manhunt is intensifying in Kansas for one of two suspects in a deadly shooting at a crowded bar early Sunday morning. Police say Hugo Villanueva-Morales is armed and dangerous.
They announced overnight the arrest of the second suspect, Javier Alatorre. They're accused of killing four people and wounding five others early Sunday morning inside the Tequila KC Bar in Kansas City, Kansas.
Dozens were at the community watering hole for a typical Saturday night out when the scene suddenly turned deadly.
"When it hit me, it felt like I got hit by a damn bus," said shooting victim Michael Barajas.
Barajas was among the five people injured, a bullet still lodged in his shoulder, after police say two gunmen started shooting just a half-hour before closing time Sunday morning, killing four men.
"I was there with my cousin," Barajas told CBS News lead national correspondent David Begnaud. "I just heard about, like, four shots. When I turned over to the right, I just seen the arm swing up and see a flash. And I'd seen it point straight at me, and I tried to kind of turn, but there was no getting out of the way. It hit me.
"It ended up going into my back, hitting my shoulder blade, and fracturing my shoulder blade."
Police say the first suspect got into an argument earlier that evening. The bartender told him to leave.
"Right then and there, he picked up a cup that was right there and threw it at me," said bartender Jose Valdez.
He returned hours later with an accomplice, both armed with handguns. "He just walked in and looked for who he was looking for, and then just started shooting," said Valdez.
For many attending a vigil for the victims Sunday evening, the emotions were still raw.
One vigil-goer said, "One of the guys that died I was playing pool with."
Barajas said the small bar was packed with about 40 people inside.
When asked to describe his experience, Barajas said it was "horrifying. The screams afterwards, just, they're bone-chilling. Seeing bodies drop, and you know, it's something you usually watch in the movies, you're seeing [it] in real life."
The bar usually has a security guard on Saturday nights, but this weekend he failed to show up. Images form the bar's security cameras helped identify the suspects.
The four people killed were Hispanic, two of them Mexican nationals, but police do not believe the shooting was racially-motivated.