The shootings were part of a targeted crime, Springfield Police Chief Steve Moody said.
“We want to ensure the business owners and the residents (in the) South Burnett Road area, this was not random. So we have a focus that we’re working on,” Moody said Friday.
Kyle Domanek, 19, was shot multiple times inside a home on South Burnett Road on Thursday evening.
He and 13-year-old Amanda Mickle were rushed to the hospital with gunshot wounds, Richard Mickle, the girl’s father said.
“I came downstairs to find my daughter in a pool of blood,” Richard Mickle said. “She’s only 13-and-a-half years old.”
Domanek and the girl were inside the home with a friend of Domanek’s and another man that the teen said he did not know, according to a Springfield police report. The group was playing video games when two unknown men entered the back door of the home and said multiple times, “Give me all you got,” Domanek told police in the report.
The thieves took $200 cash, a Play Station 3 and a cell phone, then started shooting, police said.
Domanek was shot five times in the leg and pelvic area, police said, and the girl was shot in the leg.
Mickle’s father said he was upstairs in the home when he heard his daughter yell for help.
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Springfield police are following leads in the case, Moody said.
Springfield detectives were out in the city Friday following leads on possible shooters or others involved in the crime, Moody said.
The two teens are recovering from their injuries in the hospital, police detectives said.
This is another example of illegal guns on the streets, Moody said.
“We’re taking guns off the street every day, but there’s still guns out there being used illegally, violently,” the police chief said.
The crime also highlights issues of certain people in the community who resort to using weapons instead of other means of communication, he added.
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“It’s the lack of ability of people to mediate differences,” Moody said.
Springfield police continue to investigate this shooting and another shooting that left a teen with serious injuries.
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