Man killed in Kansas City, Kansas police shooting Monday afternoon
Kansas City, Kansas police shot and killed a man during an encounter authorities described as a physical fight and a struggle over one officer’s handgun Monday afternoon in the Coronado neighborhood.
Police were dispatched around 2:30 p.m. to the area of North 57th Street and Tauromee Avenue after receiving a report of a suspicious person, Sgt. Thomas Tomasic, a department spokesman, said at the scene. A person who called police advised them that the man was standing in the roadway and jumping in front of passing vehicles, Tomasic said.
Two police officers responding to the call approached the man once they arrived on scene. Then “an altercation ensued,” Tomasic said, during which the man allegedly wrestled the gun away from one of the officers.
“They fought over the gun, and shots were fired during that incident,” Tomasic said.
Few details about the shooting were immediately disclosed by police as the investigation is in its early stage. Police have yet to disclose the identity of the man killed.
The man was taken by ambulance to an area hospital in critical condition. Police learned he had died there roughly two hours later, Tomasic said. Both officers were also taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
Police maintained a large presence as they kept northbound traffic blocked off from Muncie Drive on Monday evening. The shooting occurred near a largely vacant stretch of North 57th Street, about a quarter-mile south of Lindbergh Elementary School.
Also on scene was a group of people who knew the man killed by police. One man, who declined to be interviewed, said the shooting victim was a former Kansas City, Kansas police officer related to him by marriage. Several others there cried, and one embraced a uniformed officer who approached the barrier of police tape late Monday afternoon.
The two officers involved in the shooting will be placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, a standard practice in lethal use-of-force cases.
Tomasic said the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office and Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office would be reviewing the shooting. Part of that review will include a review of footage captured on the officers’ body cameras.
The fatal police shooting Monday is the third lethal use of force in Kansas City, Kansas this year.
On June 20, police shot and killed Dario Dominguez, a 25-year-old man suspected in an area carjacking, after he allegedly fled police capture, crashed his vehicle and exchanged gunfire with officers.
Five days later, police shot and killed 60-year-old Dennis Delgado outside a residence near 50th and Vista streets after Delgado allegedly raised a gun toward officers who were responding to an attempted violent break-in.
This story was originally published November 22, 2021 at 5:49 PM.