Lucas Kunce, a Missouri Democrat candidate was shooting an AR-15-style weapon at his campaign event in Kansas City when Ryan Gamboa, a TV reporter who was covering the event, got hit with a metal fragment on his arm.

Democrat Lucas Kunce is one of four candidates challenging Republican Josh Hawley in this year’s U.S. Senate race. The Independence-based attorney touted his 13 years in the U.S. Marine Corps as qualifying him to represent Missouri in the U.

Missouri Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Lucas Kunce applies first aid to KSHB 41 reporter Ryan Gamboa after Gamboa was struck by ricochet from a bullet fragment shot from a gun handled by Kunce during a sport shooting campaign event Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024 in Holt, Missouri. Dominick Williams [email protected]