Photo: Kansas City, Kansas Police Department
One suspect in the shooting thatkilled four people at a Kansas City, Kansas, bar early Sundayhas been arrested while police look for his alleged accomplice.
Both have been charged with four counts of murder, with bond for each set at $1 million.
Five other people were injured in the shooting.
About 40 people were inside the small Tequila KC bar when the alleged gunmen entered around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, said Officer Tom Tomasic, a spokesman with the Kansas City, Kansas, police department, reportsThe Kansas City Star.
“You have two guys come in, start shooting, people are just running,” he said. “People are just running wherever they can.”
Celeste Trevino told the station that she was dancing when the shooting broke out and Meza pushed her out of the way.
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“We saw a guy come up and literally pull a gun out and point it at us,” Trevino told the outlet. “Next thing I knew, [Meza] had to have pushed me or else I would have got shot because I was in front of him. He just pushed me out of the way. I was just on the floor and there was blood everywhere.”
“I was just crawling, trying to get behind tables and trying to get behind chairs. I was going ‘Where’s Ever? Where’s Ever?’ By the time I looked up, he was on the floor.”
A candlelight vigil Sunday night outside of the bar drew about 200 people. Two of the victims were Mexican nationals, according to atweet from Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico’s minister of foreign affairs.
“The families need closure, they have a lot of questions,” said Toni Maciel, who said those wounded in the shooting included her cousins, reportsCNN. “We just want to know why somebody would do this here. There’s families here, but you get outsiders … they come and do something like this, it kind of hurts.”
An armed security guard usually in place at the bar had not shown up to work that night, bartender Valdez told theStar.
“I don’t know what to make of it,” said Valdez. “How can you go into a place full of people and just start shooting?”
Macial said the bar was a gathering place for the community, “a home away from home, you could say,” reports theStar. “But after this, I don’t know what would happen with our community.”
source: people.com
