OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- Authorities are investigating a shooting that critically wounded two contract workers outside a suburban Kansas City elementary school.
KMBC-TV reports that Overland Park police spokesman Officer John Lacy says the shooting happened Tuesday at Sunrise Point Elementary School in the Blue Valley school district.
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District spokeswoman Becky Miller says no students were on campus.
Overland Park Police said in a tweet that no school employees were involved.
The Kansas City Star reports that the shooting suspect fled and tried to carjack someone at a car wash. Police say shots were fired but no one was hit. The suspect stole another vehicle at gunpoint a few minutes later.
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Police are searching for the suspect.
Lacy hasn't responded to phone messages left by The Associated Press.
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An aerial view of Sunrise Point Elementary School in Kansas.