Man fatally shot Sunday at gas station near 85th and Woodland in Kansas City
A man was shot and killed after an altercation with another person Sunday at a gas station near East 85th Street and Woodland Avenue in Kansas City, according to police.
Police were called there shortly before 3 p.m. on a report of a disturbance with a person armed with a gun, Sgt. Jacob Becchina, a Kansas City Police Department spokesman, said in an email.
Arriving officers found a man unresponsive outside the gas station. It appeared he had been shot.
Police summoned emergency medical personnel and the man was declared dead at the scene.
The person who called police said the victim had been in an altercation with another person, which led to the shooting.
Down the street, east of the gas station, other police responding to the area stopped a vehicle that had been described as leaving the scene. Police took the occupants of that vehicle into custody for further investigation.
Crime scene investigators and detectives would be at the scene processing evidence and talking to witnesses to piece together exactly what happened, Becchina wrote, and to determine how the occupants of the stopped vehicle may have been involved.
Anyone with information was asked to call the police department’s homicide unit at 816-234-5043 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
The shooting marked the third homicide in about 24 hours in Kansas City, bringing the number of people killed this year to 109. By this time last year, there had been 78 killings, according to data maintained by The Star that includes fatal law enforcement shootings.
“I can say unequivocally we are way up over last year nonfatal shootings and homicide,” Becchina told reporters as it started to rain near the gas station. “That’s an unacceptable pace.”
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This story was originally published July 19, 2020 at 4:17 PM.
