KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A man wounded in an Oct. 9 shooting at a Westport recording studio is charged with attempted robbery and two other felonies.

Jackson County prosecutors charged Jerome Washington, age unspecified, with attempted first-degree robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm – dangerous felon/prior conviction.

The shooting, which injured five people, occurred around 8 p.m. at a recording studio at 315 Westport Road.

A court document states that one of the shooting victims told police that he and two other men went to the studio to make music.

The victim told police he normally called the producer at the recording studio to be let into the building.

The men found the front door open and decided to enter.

They went upstairs and found five men holding AR-style rifles and handguns with high-capacity drum magazines, according to the court document.

The producer told the three men to leave and two of them went to a recreation room on the other side of the studio.

A man stayed in the studio and Washington approached the man and would not let him out.

Washington hit the victim in the head with a gun, searched his pockets and attempted to steal his backpack.

The men in the recording studio exchanged gunfire with at least one of the victims.

Police found three men with critical gunshot wounds. Two other victims went to a hospital alone.

The city shut down the business, Westport Media Collective, after the shooting because it was operating without the proper license.

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