Crime

Kansas City police identify Sunday homicide victim

A man shot to death in southeast Kansas City Sunday night was identified Monday as Jacob Brantner.

Brantner, 39, was killed about 8:30 p.m. Sunday in a parking lot of a shopping center in the 8700 block of East 63rd Street.

A Kansas City police officer working off-duty heard the gunshots and found Brantner. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Police ask anyone with information about the killing to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.

His killing was the metropolitan area’s 40th homicide of 2016.

Tony Rizzo: 816-234-4435, @trizzkc

This story was originally published April 4, 2016 at 11:48 AM.

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