{"id":58401,"date":"2026-06-07T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=58401"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T02:29:25","slug":"nine-injured-in-shooting-near-englands-world-cup-base-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=58401","title":{"rendered":"Nine injured in shooting near England&#8217;s World Cup base camp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">June 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Nine people sustained non-life-threatening injuries in a shooting near \u200bEngland&#8217;s World Cup base camp \u200cin Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, days before the tournament is due \u200bto kick off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Kansas City \u200bpolice said there were no suspects \u2060in custody and that at \u200bleast three of the shooting \u200bvictims were transported to local hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The incident occurred roughly four miles from where \u200bEngland are set to train \u200bat the Swope Soccer Village. England have \u200cnot \u2060arrived in Kansas City and are due to play a friendly against Costa Rica in \u200bOrlando, Florida, \u200bon Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A \u2060spokesperson for the FA declined to comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Gun violence \u200bis common in the \u200bUnited \u2060States, where there were more than 400 mass shootings in 2025, \u2060according \u200bto the Gun \u200bViolence Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/soccer\/nine-injured-shooting-near-englands-world-cup-base-camp-2026-06-07\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Nine people sustained non-life-threatening injuries in a shooting near \u200bEngland&#8217;s World Cup base camp \u200cin Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, days before the tournament is due \u200bto kick off. Kansas City \u200bpolice said there were no suspects \u2060in custody and that at \u200bleast three of the shooting \u200bvictims were transported to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":58404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[37838,37839,3287],"class_list":["post-58401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-england-world-cup-training-camp","tag-nine-injured","tag-shooting-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58405,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58401\/revisions\/58405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}