Kansas City police investigate two separate homicides early Monday morning
Kansas City police were investigating two separate homicides early Monday after one shooting victim was dropped off at a hospital emergency room and a second victim was found fatally wounded in the back of a home.
The first homicide was reported at 3:30 a.m. after officers responded to Research Medical Center at Prospect Avenue and Meyer Boulevard. Hospital staff told arriving officers that a man who had been shot was dropped at the emergency room. The man has been identified as 18-year-old Jai’Bryn Johnson.
Medical staff declared Johnson dead a short time later, Kansas City Police Department spokesman Sgt. Jacob Becchina said in an email.
Detectives interviewed several people who brought Johnson to the hospital to determine where the shooting occurred. No other details were immediately available.
About 15 minutes later, police responded to the sound of gunfire near 57th Street and Swope Parkway.
While the officers were on their way to the shooting, they were redirected and sent a block away to answer a 911 call in the 5700 block of Mersington Avenue. Once they arrived, the officers were directed to the rear of a home where they found a man who appeared to have been shot, Becchina said.
Emergency crews arrived and declared the man dead. Several people who were at the scene were detained and interviewed by police.
On Monday night, police identified the man as Carlo Enrique Collado, 18.
No arrests have been made and police continued their investigation on Monday.
There was no indication that the separate shootings were related, Becchina said.
The deaths marked the 76th and 77th homicides of the year in Kansas City, according to data tracked by The Star, which includes police shootings. Last year, Kansas City suffered the second-highest number of homicides in the city’s history, recording 157.
Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).
This story was originally published July 4, 2022 at 9:04 AM.
