KC police investigate 2nd homicide Wednesday after teen fatally shot inside home
Update: In an email Thursday afternoon, Kansas City police released the name and age of the victim.
Kansas City police launched a second homicide investigation Wednesday after a 17-year-old was found shot to death in a home.
The victim was found after police officers and residents in the area of East 68th Street and Monroe Avenue reported hearing gunshots just after 7:30 p.m..
Sgt. Jacob Becchina, a Kansas City police spokesman, said officers had been on patrol in the area. They heard what appeared to be gunfire and began investigating. Police also received multiple 911 calls.
The officers were directed to a home in the 6800 block of Monroe Avenue, where they found a teen inside a residence who had been shot.
Preliminary findings showed the victim had been shot from outside the home, Becchina said.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. He was later identified by police as Treshaun Hawkins. Becchina said it appeared the teen was the only person home at the time of the shooting.
No arrests have been announced, and police had no information on a possible suspect late Wednesday night.
Detectives were looking to speak with witnesses, and police continued investigating at the scene.
The killing was the second homicide Kansas City police were investigating Wednesday. Earlier, just before 1 p.m., a man was fatally shot and a child was injured outside an apartment in the 2000 block of Wheeling Avenue. Witnesses from that shooting told police the killing stemmed from an argument that happened in front of the residence between the man and the suspect. The name of the victim has not been released in that case.
Becchina said police were “investigating the possibility” of the two cases being linked but did not provide specific details. Detectives who responded to the homicide on Wheeling Avenue were called to the scene on Monroe Avenue Wednesday night, he added.
A reward of up to $25,000 is being offered for any information leading to an arrest in this case or in other unsolved homicides.
Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline anonymously at 816-474-8477 or the Kansas City Police Department Homicide Unit at 816-234-5043.
This story was originally published January 8, 2020 at 10:48 PM.
