By Hasani Gittens
KSHB 41 Action NewsA person was taken into custody at Valley Park Elementary School in relation to the shootings at Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom in Overland Park, Kan.
As another tragic shooting rocks the country, officials in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, Kan., are left to piece together the background and motivations of one gunman.
Just a few hours into the case, investigators don't know — or aren't saying — much about a suspect who was arrested at the scene.
"This man is in his 70s, he is a white male, he has a beard, and outside of that there's not a lot I can confirm," Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass said at a press conference Sunday night.
He also said the man was not from the state. When asked if the suspect was from Missouri, right next door, the chief declined to answer.
"He's not from Kansas, outside of that, I'm not at liberty to say," said Douglass, who added, "We have no indication that he knew the victims."
Investigators said that all of the shootings — two men at one location, and a woman at another — happened in the parking lots of two Jewish centers.
First published April 13 2014, 3:41 PM
Hasani Gittens
Hasani Gittens is a news editor at NBCNews.com. In that role he assigns, edits, reports and writes news stories, and manages a team of reporters covering mainly the evening hours. Gittens, a WNBC veteran, joined NBCNews.com in January 2013. Before that he worked at The Daily â€" News Corp's short-lived "iPad newspaper" â€" where he spent two years also as a news editor.
Prior to that, he worked at WNBC as the managing editor of the station's website, and even longer ago he spent eight years as a reporter and eventually an editor for the New York Post.
Gittens lives in Queens, New York.
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