Kansas City’s 50th homicide of 2025 comes at close of violent weekend
Update: The deceased has been identified as Joshua P. Teel, 46.
Police are investigating a fatal shooting in Kansas City’s Eastwood Hills East neighborhood Sunday evening, according to a Kansas City police spokesperson.
The death was the third reported homicide in the city Sunday, and the fifth homicide recorded over the weekend.
Officers were called around 5:45 p.m. to the 8500 block of Sni-A-Bar Road on a shooting call, and when they arrived, they found an unresponsive man who had been shot, said Capt. Jake Becchina, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department. The man was declared dead at the scene.
Becchina said police believe the victim was outside a residence when he had an interaction with an unknown suspect that led to gunfire. The suspect then fled the scene in an unknown direction, he said.
Anyone with information about the shooting may contact investigators by calling 816-234-5043 or by calling the TIPS Hotline anonymously at 816-474-TIPS.
The Sni-A-Bar Road killing was Kansas City’s 50th homicide of 2025, according to data tracked by The Star, which includes fatal police shootings. By this time in 2024, Kansas City had recorded 47 homicides. By this time in 2023, which was Kansas City’s deadliest year, the city had tallied 54 homicides.
Earlier Sunday, a man was fatally shot in Kansas City’s Knoches Park neighborhood and a Kansas City firefighter-paramedic was fatally stabbed while on a call in the Northland. On Saturday, two teens were also found fatally shot in a vehicle in an East Side neighborhood.
This story was originally published April 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM.
