Crime

Update: Police identify 27-year-old man shot, killed in Kansas City, Kan., Sunday

By Robert A. Cronkleton
Police were investigating the fatal shooting of a man in his 30s in the Armourdale community of Kansas City, Kan., Sunday evening. Officers found the victim in the 500 block of South 12th Street. He died at a hospital. This Google Maps Street View photo of the area is from August 2016.
Police were investigating the fatal shooting of a man in his 30s in the Armourdale community of Kansas City, Kan., Sunday evening. Officers found the victim in the 500 block of South 12th Street. He died at a hospital. This Google Maps Street View photo of the area is from August 2016. Google Maps

Police identified Vincent S. Trulson, 27, of Kansas City, Kan., as the man who was fatally shot Sunday evening in the Armourdale community.

Officers responding to reports of a shooting about 8:45 p.m. found Trulson in the 500 block of South 12th Street in Kansas City, Kan. He was rushed to a hospital where he later died.

The Kansas City, Kan., Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit is investigating Trulson’s death as a homicide. Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).

The homicide was one of several violent crimes over the weekend in the Kansas City metro area. In Kansas City, two women were killed and eight other people injured in five separate incidents Saturday night and early Sunday.

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Robert A. Cronkleton: 816-234-4261, @cronkb

This story was originally published August 6, 2018 at 7:34 AM.

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