Overview
- Relatives searching the burned Independence home discovered a decomposing body in a flooded, heavily cluttered basement and reported it to police, who say clothing matched what the suspect wore during the attacks.
- Detectives are operating under the assumption the remains are 22-year-old Oscar Sanchez-Munoz while awaiting positive identification and a medical examiner’s determination of cause and manner of death.
- Law enforcement officials say repeated searches by multiple agencies were hampered by fire damage, several feet of water, collapsed stairwork and dense debris that made parts of the basement inaccessible.
- The finding effectively ends a weeklong multi-agency manhunt that included an FBI $25,000 reward for information and grows scrutiny from neighbors who questioned why investigators missed the basement.
- Investigators say Sanchez-Munoz was linked to a June 16 series of shootings on I-70/I-670 that killed one person and wounded four, and to an earlier June 11 Wyandotte County shooting that produced an outstanding aggravated assault warrant.