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When I was in high school/college, we used to frequent downtown KC because it was a great place to skate and it was normally a ghost town at night. We generally started at Barney Allis Plaza and worked out way around downtown as the security guards would chase us off.
One particular trip down there nearly got me killed just a couple of days before my high school graduation. Me and 4 of my old skater friends made the trip downtown and were skating the steps at the AT&T Town Pavilion. While we were skating the steps these three kids wearing starter jackets came up to us and started chatting us up. The kids were probably between about 13-16 and were very friendly at first. I let the youngest one ride my board for a minute and then he decided he wanted to walk off with my board. I chased him down about a block or so to get my board back, and one of the little shits pulled out a gun. I assumed that it was just a pellet gun so I grabbed the board from the kid and ended up wrestling it away from him and I fell to the ground as I yanked it away from him. I rolled over and immediately started running up the hill away from them after I got to my feet. During this scuffle, I heard 2 gun shots. One immediately after I got my board and started to run and then another a few seconds later when I was in full sprint mode.
When it happened I just assumed that the kid must have had blanks because I never heard any ricochets and my friends said they guy was pointing the gun at me from pretty close range on the first shot. Looking back, I'm guessing that it's more likely the one with he gun (who was wearing a LA Raiders starter jacket) was probably just a bad shot.
Did a lot of crazy, stupid shit back in the day and probably should have bit the dust that day.
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