Two women identified among victims of triple homicide in Kansas City

Kansas City police on Sunday released the names of two women killed in a triple shooting Friday inside an east Kansas City house.

Police identified one of the victims as 30-year-old Jennifer Zimmerman, of Kansas City. Family members told police that she may have recently changed her last name to Portillo.

Yessenia Ahumada, 25, was also killed. She was a Kansas City resident, according to police.

A man killed in the shooting has not yet been publicly identified. Police said detectives are trying to contact relatives outside the U.S.

The killings are being investigated as a triple homicide, police said.

The shooting was reported shortly before 10 a.m. Friday at a house on the corner of 17th Street and Chelsea Avenue.

A female caller reported that there had been a shooting and that she was wounded.

When police arrived they found a man dead. A woman was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.

The woman who called police was taken to a hospital, but later died from her injuries.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.

This story was originally published November 12, 2017 at 4:16 PM with the headline "Two women identified among victims of triple homicide in Kansas City."