Police seeking person of interest after woman’s stabbing death in south KC

Police are looking for a woman who may have been involved in the fatal stabbing of 18-year-old Alaysia Nelson in south Kansas City.

The killing happened late Tuesday outside the Canyon Creek apartments and townhomes in the 9300 block of Bales Avenue.

Kansas City police found Nelson fatally wounded in the parking lot. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police began investigating the death as a homicide.

No arrests have been made.

In a statement Thursday night, police said they were seeking a person of interest identified as Heaven L. Redick, 18.

Anyone with information on Redick’s whereabouts or on the stabbing is asked to call the Kansas City Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 816-234-5043 or call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.