Police on patrol hear gunfire and find two people shot, one fatally, in Kansas City
Update: Police identified the man who was killed as 39-year-old Shroy Lapsely.
A man died and a woman was injured in a shooting in Kansas City’s North Town Fork Creek neighborhood Tuesday, police said.
Officers on patrol around 11:30 p.m. heard the sound of gunshots to their east, across Highway 71, police said in a news release. They responded near East 55th Street and South Benton Avenue, where they found a man and a woman in the street with gunshot wounds.
Officers helped the victims and called for paramedics. The man and woman were taken to a hospital by ambulance.
The man, later identified by police as 39-year-old Shroy Lapsely, was pronounced dead at a hospital around 1 a.m. Wednesday. The woman was still receiving treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.
As of Wednesday morning, police have not yet said what may have led up to the shooting. Detectives were processing the scene for evidence and searching for witnesses.
Police are working to identify a suspect, said Capt. Jake Becchina, a spokesman with the Kansas City Police Department, in an email Wednesday.
The killing is Kansas City’s 109th homicide of 2024, according to data maintained by The Star. At this time last year, the city had recorded 139 homicides.
Anyone who might have information about the shooting should contact homicide detectives directly at 816-234-5043 or the TIPS hotline anonymously at 816-474-8477. There is a reward of up to $25,000 for information submitted anonymously to the TIPS hotline.
This story was originally published September 4, 2024 at 7:36 AM.
