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Police: Man shoots convenience store employee after credit card declined in Kansas City

Employee suffers non-life-threatening injury
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is searching for a suspect in a shooting at a convenience store near 85th Street between Holmes Road and Campbell Street on Thursday afternoon.

According to a KCPD sergeant at the scene of the incident, a customer went to make a purchase but their credit card declined and an argument later ensued.

Police said the customer then shot the clerk in the leg but their injury is non-life-threatening.