Police shoot, kill man while responding to domestic disturbance in Kansas City
Update: The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the man shot by police as 36-year-old Shawn W. Wilson of Kansas City.
Police shot and killed a 36-year-old man early Monday while investigating a domestic disturbance involving a child in a Kansas City neighborhood, a spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol said.
The highway patrol identified the man killed by officers as Shawn W. Wilson of Kansas City.
Officers responded to the disturbance around 2:25 a.m. near 51st and Olive streets, said Sgt. Bill Lowe, a spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol.
Arriving officers told investigators that they encountered Wilson, who they said was holding a knife, outside a home in the neighborhood, Lowe said.
According to the highway patrol, officers said they told Wilson to drop the knife. Wilson did not, and when he allegedly advanced toward officers, they shot him, Lowe said. Wilson was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries and he later died.
It was unknown how many officers were involved in the deadly shooting or how many officers had fired their weapons, Lowe said.
The killing is Kansas City’s 16th homicide so far this year, according to data maintained by The Star. There were 157 killings in 2021, the second deadliest year in the city’s history.
This story was originally published February 7, 2022 at 7:29 AM.
