Girl, 15, dies in Kansas City, Kansas, after shots fired into vehicle overnight
A teenage girl was fatally shot early Monday in Kansas City, Kansas, police said.
Members of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department were called to a hospital about 1:50 a.m. after a young shooting victim was brought in, Officer Dustin Dierenfeldt, a department spokesman, said in an email.
The victim, a 15-year-old girl, underwent surgery for her life-threatening injuries, police said. She died shortly after.
The girl was shot while inside a vehicle near South Boeke Street and Osage Avenue, said Officer T.J. Tomasic, a spokesman with the department.
“Someone else shot into the vehicle when the girl was struck,” Tomasic said.
Police said no suspects were in custody as of Monday morning.
“We’ve got to protect our young people,” Kansas City, Missouri, mayor Quinton Lucas tweeted Monday morning, a couple hours after a 4-year-old boy was fatally shot in Kansas City, Missouri. “This is too much and heartbreaking to read this as well.”
The girl’s death is Kansas City, Kansas’s 23rd homicide of the year. This time last year, 22 homicides had been reported.
Anyone with information about the homicide is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).
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This story was originally published June 29, 2020 at 8:54 AM.
