KANSAS CITY ALLEGED SERIAL CROOK TARGETS VETERAN WITH LOST DOGGIE TRICK & THEN GUNPOINT HOME INVASION!!!

For those who haven't seen it yet . . . A local TV station reports a tragic story that should warn of rising crime around Kansas City.

Even worse, they note that the suspect should have already been behind bars . . .

Take a look:

Fox4: Ruse about lost dog precedes violent armed attack of Vietnam veteran, wife in their KC home

Deets:

"Investigators believe the war vet’s military pride might have put a target on his back – when two burglars noticed his Marine Corps hat and an American flag hanging from his porch. The small signs made the crooks believe Mark McCunniff and his wife, Cheryl, had guns in their house they could steal . . . The Suspect another young man approached the couple's driveway on Winchester Avenue and pretended to be looking for a lost dog. The duo even showed her a photo of a puppy, so she offered to write down their phone number in case she saw it. The strangers used the ruse to get inside the house, where they whipped out guns."

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