Man dies after being shot on New Year’s Eve in KC

A man shot late on New Year’s Eve has died, Kansas City police announced Monday.

Officers responding to a “nature unknown” call found Brent A. Richards, 26, lying on the sidewalk in the 4200 block of Woodland Avenue about 11 p.m. Tuesday. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died Saturday, police said.

Police are counting his death as the city’s 77th homicide of 2014.

A death previously counted at the 77th homicide has been reclassified as a suspicious death but not as a homicide at this time, police said. That incident involved a man found dead of an apparent gunshot wound New Year’s Eve day in the 1300 block of East 82nd Terrace.

The Star

This story was originally published January 5, 2015 at 10:53 AM with the headline "Man dies after being shot on New Year’s Eve in KC."