Homicide investigation underway near Overland Park’s city hall, police say
Update: Police later identified the victim as Jeren Hinton, 35, of Overland Park.
Overland Park police are investigating a homicide near City Hall, officials said Monday morning.
The killing happened in the 8500 block of West 85th Street, at Greenbrier Condominiums, Officer John Lacy, a spokesman with the Overland Park Police Department, said.
Officers responded to the complex shortly after 5:20 a.m. on reports of a single shot being fired, Lacy said. There, they found a man in his mid-30s with a gunshot wound. He was declared dead at the scene.
Witnesses told police they saw two or three males run across the parking lot and get into two cars, a black sedan and a white sedan, Lacy said. The cars fled in an unknown direction.
Police are checking whether any surveillance cameras or city cameras captured the cars fleeing.
The complex is located across the street from Overland Park City Hall and the police department. Shawnee Mission West High School is just to the west.
“This is a quiet neighborhood,” Lacy said. “Nothing ever happens in this neighborhood … This is not normal. This is not a high crime area or anything like that.”
No additional information was immediately available.
Police ask anyone with information on the shooting to contact the anonymous TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS. There is a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest.
This story was originally published May 24, 2021 at 7:26 AM.
