As a woman was placing her infant in a auto seat in the store’s parking lot, Tennis said, two suspects struck her in the back of the head with an unspecified object.
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Authorities have arrested and charged a Kansas man in an attempted robbery and shooting at a suburban Kansas City store.
Police said the woman’s condition has been upgraded to good, and the wounded good Samaritan was alert while waiting to undergo surgery.
Police said the Kansas City, Kansas, woman was putting her baby in her vehicle Sunday afternoon in Shawnee when two suspects hit her in the head from behind.
Another Good Samaritan drew his own gun and shot one of the attackers, killing him.
The second good Samaritan, identified as a 36-year-old DeSoto, Kansas, man, was interviewed by police and released, KMBC said. A man who fit that person’s description was detained but later released. Shawnee police spokesman Maj.
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He, too, got out of his auto – but he did so armed with a gun, shooting dead one of the attackers, identified as 28-year-old Kansas City resident John W. Simmons III, the Kansas City Star reported.
