Police identify man shot to death outside apartment complex in KC’s Northeast area
Police identified a man found shot and killed outside an apartment complex in Kansas City’s Northeast area Saturday night as 28-year-old Sade Abdi.
Officers responded to numerous calls about 9:20 p.m. Saturday reporting the sound of gunfire and found Abdi lying on the ground outside a vehicle that had its driver’s side door open, according to the Kansas City Police Department. The vehicle was parked near the the entrance to a parking lot at Northeast View Apartments at the corner of Garfield and Lexington avenues.
Someone had shot Abdi and he was pronounced dead at the scene by Kansas City Fire Department personnel, police said.
Police said no one was in custody. No suspect information was released.
Detectives and crime scene investigators remained at the scene for several hours collecting evidence.
A neighbor, who is not being named because the killer is still at large, said the shooting was very upsetting. “It’s very wrong,” she said. “Very bad. It’s not right.”
She described hearing, from inside her nearby apartment Saturday night, five gunshots in rapid succession. She went outside to see what happened, and police told her a man had been killed. An officer said she should go back inside because the shooter had not been caught, she said.
Abdi is Kansas City’s 58th homicide victim of the year.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked call the Kansas City Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 816-234-5043 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).
This story was originally published June 9, 2019 at 8:26 AM.
