Police board meeting set after string of shootings across Kansas City
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- Kansas City police board will meet Tuesday morning at headquarters to convene business.
- The meeting follows several major June incidents, including two mass shootings.
- As of May 10, nonfatal shootings were 15% higher than the same period in 2025.
The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners will meet Tuesday morning for the first time since a series of high-profile shootings left multiple people dead or injured across the city.
Commissioners are scheduled to meet at 9:30 a.m. at police headquarters in downtown Kansas City. The agenda includes routine departmental business, but the meeting comes after several major violent incidents in June, including two mass shootings, a string of shootings along Interstate 70 and a double homicide at a Westport convenience store.
Among the incidents was a shooting Friday night near the 18th and Vine Jazz District that left one person dead and five others injured. Earlier this month, nine people were wounded in a shooting at an unlicensed after-hours club on Troost Avenue.
On Monday, U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News that Oscar Sanchez-Munoz, the man police have accused of a series of shootings along the interstate, may be dead. However, Kansas City police said they were not aware that Sanchez-Munoz, who is accused of killing one man and injuring four others, had been found dead.
It is unclear whether any of the recent shootings will be discussed publicly, but Police Chief Stacey Graves is expected to give her monthly report during the meeting.
Former police commission president, and longtime community advocate, Alvin Brooks said he fully expects the board to address the recent incidents.
“I’m sure the chief will talk about it,” Brooks said. “The board, I suspect, will ask some specific questions, not in terms of investigation, but in terms of the loss of life, where it occurred, when this occurred, where there were suspects, where the investigation is going.”
Brooks, who served on the board from 2010 to 2017, said commissioners have historically received briefings from investigative commanders following major incidents and expected questions about where the shootings occurred and how investigations are progressing.
Graves most recently spoke during a Wednesday news conference on how Sanchez-Munoz was identified as a suspect in the I-70 shootings.
During the last full board meeting in May, Deputy Chief Doug Niemeier presented updated statistics on crime in Kansas City, which had largely been down. But those statistics did show a rise in non-fatal shootings.
Crime statistics shared during that May meeting showed the city had recorded 120 nonfatal shooting victims as of May 10, a 15% increase from the same period in 2025, when there were 102 victims. Despite that increase, the numbers were still below those of years past.
That was before June saw multiple mass shootings, as well as the five people who were shot during a string of shootings on I-70.
Police Department officials said in December that nonfatal shootings in Kansas City were down more than 30% in 2025. The city recorded 396 nonfatal shootings last year after totals surpassed 500 annually from 2022 through 2024.
As nonfatal shooting numbers have gone up slightly, homicide numbers have decreased year over year, with 42 occurring in 2026 compared to 55 in 2025, according to Niemeier.
