Man found fatally shot in car after rolling gun battle reported in KCK
A man was found dead Monday morning inside a car that police think was involved in a rolling gun battle in Kansas City, Kansas.
Officers responded to a call of shots fired after 6:30 a.m., reporting a gun battle in the area of North Sixth Street and Tauromee Avenue. Several more calls to dispatch led officers to the 900 block of Ohio Avenue, nearly a mile southwest, where they found a man fatally shot in the backseat of a car, according to the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department.
After police found the man, officers received a call from a woman who said she had seen two vehicles at nearby North Ninth Street and Splitlog Avenue with occupants shooting at each other, said Officer Thomas Tomasic, a police spokesman. Police think the victim was found in one of those cars, a white Chrysler 300, he said.
No one else was in the Chrysler, which had a flat tire and a broken window. Police think anyone in the car during the shooting fled.
Police were investigating the killing as a homicide. Detectives placed possible evidence in brown paper bags near the Chrysler, which was on a residential street surrounded by red and yellow cautionary tape.
Police later identified the man as 32-year-old Juan Nevarez.
Police had no suspect information.
The killing came nearly a year to the day after a 23-year-old man was fatally shot inside a home on the same block, near North 10th Street.
The homicide Monday marked the 30th killing this year in Kansas City, Kansas, according to data kept by The Star, which includes fatal police shootings. By this time last year, the city had recorded 29 homicides in a year that ended with 33.
Police asked anyone with information to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
This story was originally published November 25, 2019 at 8:40 AM.
