KC police release name of 15-year-old fatally shot at 26th and Myrtle Avenue
Police have identified a 15-year-old found fatally shot late Friday in the 2600 block of Myrtle Avenue as Franklin Noland of Kansas City, Kan.
Officers were called to the area at about 11:15 p.m. on a gunshots-fired call. They found Noland inside a vehicle. He was pronounced dead a short time later.
The vehicle Noland was driving was listed as a stolen auto taken during a carjacking in Kansas City, Kan. Police said it is unknown whether the carjacking had anything to do with the shooting death.
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Glenn E. Rice: 816-234-4341, @GRicekcstar
This story was originally published May 30, 2017 at 1:09 PM with the headline "KC police release name of 15-year-old fatally shot at 26th and Myrtle Avenue."