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One Person Injured After Tuesday Evening Bus Shooting

The Kansas City, Mo., Police Department is investigating a Tuesday evening shooting on a Kansas City ATA bus.

KCPD Captain Tye Grant says police were dispatched to a bus at 39th and Prospect around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday. He says shots were fired into the bus at an earlier stop, near Benton Avenue.

A 15-year-old girl was struck multiple times. Grant says she is at the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Grant says the department is investigating to see if the intended victim may have been someone traveling with the teenager who was shot.

Elle Moxley covered education for KCUR.
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