Overview
- Officers were dispatched to the area on an injury-accident call and were later told the incident may have been a shooting.
- Responding officers found an abandoned electric motorbike and learned emergency medical services had already taken the victim to hospital.
- The man died later that day and the Kansas City Police Department is investigating the incident as a homicide with initial findings that he was shot at the intersection where the motorbike was found.
- Local reporters place this as the second shooting homicide after a recent 25-day stretch without a homicide and note 72 homicides so far this year compared with 98 at the same point last year.
- Police are asking the public for tips through Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers by phone, online, or the P3Tips app and say the probe remains active while investigators process the scene and evidence.