Leawood boy, 10, dies days after scooter he was riding got hit by vehicle
A Leawood fourth-grader has died from injuries suffered when the electric scooter he was riding was hit by a vehicle last week, a spokesman for the Leawood Police Department said Thursday.
Duke Ommert, 10, died at the hospital where he was being treated, said Capt. Jason Ahring of the Leawood Police Department in a news release Thursday. The crash occurred around 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 on Lee Boulevard, just north of West 103rd Street.
“As we’ve learned throughout the last two weeks, Duke was a young man with a love of sports, his friends, and his family,” Ahring said in the news release. “Our thoughts and deep condolences are with the Ommert family and friends during this difficult time.”
A GoFundMe fundraising page created for Duke’s family said Duke was a fourth grader at Brookwood Elementary School, at 3411 W. 103rd Street. According to the page, Duke was struck by a car while crossing Lee Boulevard after playing with friends that afternoon. The page has raised nearly $119,000 as of Thursday.
The Leawood Police Department’s major crash investigation unit is still wrapping up the investigation into the crash, and was not releasing further details of the crash at this time, Ahring said.
Police urged anyone who has not spoken with investigators to contact the police department at 816-642-7700 or tips@leawood.org.
Duke’s death comes just days after Hazen Workman-Duffy, a third-grader at Ingles Elementary School in south Kansas City, was killed by a van in south Kansas City.
Hazen was biking to class on a marked crosswalk around 7 a.m. on Oct. 14 when she was struck by a white Ford Transit van, which was headed north on Food Lane and turned west onto Longview Road.
A GoFundMe fundraising page has been created for Hazen’s family to help pay funeral and medical costs. So far, over $13,000 has been raised as of Thursday.
In response to her death, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas said in a post on Facebook on Wednesday night that he has introduced an ordinance banning vehicles from making a right turn on a red light within school zones when school zone speed limits are in effect. The measure will be heard by the city’s transportation committee on Tuesday, and could go before the full council on Oct. 30.
This story was originally published October 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM.
