"Mass chaos on a Sunday afternoon," says a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department. And, he says it could have been much worse. Shootings at a Kansas City mall have left three people dead, including the gunman, and a shopper critically wounded.

Police say a man drove into the parking lot of the Ward Parkway Mall, killed the occupants of the two cars parked on either side of his automobile, then went inside and wounded a shopper before police killed him.

It’s thought the same man killed a woman earlier at her home and stole her car. A policeman who stopped that car was shot and wounded.