KANSAS CITY MO. — Kansas City, Kansas, Police Chief Karl Oakman said Monday that a drug deal gone bad Saturday night ended with two men dead and two others wounded.
The shooting happened about 9 p.m. in the 800 block of North 70th Terrace.
Javon Brown, 19, and Delorean Jackson, 20, both of Kansas City, Kan., and a third man went to the residence to buy marijuana, according to Chief Oakman.
Brown, Jackson, and the third person with them tried to rob the drug dealer, but the robbery attempted ended with a gun battle.
The gunfire also wounded two others. Police found them Saturday night at a hospital getting treated for non life-threatening injuries, police said.
Two suspects were arrested, and Chief Oakman said detectives are working with the prosecutors on charges in the deaths.
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