Decomposing body found inside vacant Kansas City home; homicide investigation underway
Police are investigating a homicide after a body was found in a vacant Kansas City home Monday afternoon.
Officers were called around 3 p.m. Monday to a house being rehabbed in the 3600 block of East Gregory Boulevard, Sgt. Jake Becchina, a spokesman with the Kansas City Police Department, said in an email.
When police arrived, the person who called 911 took them inside the house where they found a body in an advanced stage of decomposition, Becchina said. The race, sex and age of the victim could not immediately be determined.
Homicide detectives are currently investigating the death as a homicide, he said. Crime scene investigators and a medical examiner will help determine how the person died.
“The cause of death is not known but the circumstances are suspicious enough to that homicide detectives are investigating as a homicide and bringing all the resources at their disposal to the investigation,” Becchina said in an email Monday night.
The discovery of this most recent victim marks Kansas City’s 144th homicide of this year, according to data kept by The Star, which includes police shootings. By this time last year, Kansas City had 111 homicides.
Across the entire metro area, there have been 204 homicides this year.
Anyone with information about this deadly shooting is asked to call the Kansas City Police Department’s Homicide Unit at 816-234-5043 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477). A reward of up to $25,000 for tips leading to an arrest in this case.
