Man fatally shot Thursday at East 33rd Street, Montgall Avenue in Kansas City: police
A man was fatally shot Thursday afternoon in Kansas City’s Oak Park Northwest neighborhood, according to police.
Officers were called shortly before 1 p.m. on a report of gunfire to the area of East 33rd Street and and Montgall Avenue, according to the Kansas City Police Department. A person, the caller said, was down in the front yard of a home.
The victim was unresponsive when officers arrived. He died at the scene.
The killing marked the 26th this year in Kansas City. By this time in 2020, the city had recorded 31 homicides, according to data maintained by The Star. Last year ended with 182 homicides, the most in the city’s history in a single year.
The shooting comes on what has already been a deadly week in Kansas City. On Sunday, three people were killed in separate homicides. The next day, another shooting left two people dead.
“It’s not the way you want to start a week,” Sgt. Jake Becchina, a police spokesman, said Thursday. “People should be able to be outside to enjoy the weather on a day like today.”
Gun violence will be the subject of a new, statewide journalism project The Star is undertaking in Missouri this year in partnership with the national service program Report for America and sponsored in part by Missouri Foundation for Health. As part of this project, The Star will seek the community’s help.
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This story was originally published March 4, 2021 at 1:51 PM.
