Crime

Police investigate suspicious death after man’s body is found in Kansas City house

Kansas City police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found Wednesday evening inside a house in the 2000 block of Spruce Avenue.

No signs of physical trauma were found, police said, but the circumstances of the death were suspicious.

Officers were called to the house about 8 p.m. and found the body in a second-floor bedroom. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not released his name.

The cause of the death was not immediately determined. An autopsy will be conducted, police said Thursday.

Glenn E. Rice
The Kansas City Star
Glenn E. Rice is an investigative reporter who focuses on law enforcement and the legal system. He has been with The Star since 1988. In 2020 Rice helped investigate discrimination and structural racism that went unchecked for decades inside the Kansas City Fire Department.
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