Four shot, two fatally, in Kansas City’s Park Farms neighborhood Monday night: police
Update: Police on Tuesday identified the homicide victims as Deshawn Dudley, 26, and Dondre Hart, 20.
Two people were killed and two others wounded during a quadruple shooting that unfolded late Monday night in the Park Farms neighborhood of south Kansas City, according to police.
Kansas City police officers were dispatched around 10:45 p.m. to a residence in the 7300 block of Manchester Avenue on a report of a shooting there, Officer Donna Drake, a department spokeswoman, said in a statement. There were three gunshot victims at the crime scene when officers arrived, Drake said.
Two victims were declared dead at the scene. The third was taken by ambulance to the hospital. Later, a fourth gunshot victim was treated at the hospital after being taken there by a private vehicle.
Both of the surviving gunshot victims were last listed in stable condition as of early Tuesday morning.
Police were investigating the circumstances that led to the shooting. Preliminary information gathered by investigators indicated that a house party was happening at the residence where the shooting unfolded, Drake said.
The double homicide came a few hours after a separate killing reported earlier Monday evening in the West Blue Valley neighborhood. Police were called around 6:15 p.m. to a reported shooting near 16th Street and Oakley Avenue that led to the discovery of a fatally shot person inside a vehicle near apartments in the 5600 block of East 17th Street.
The gunshot victim in that case was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead there. A second gunshot victim stemming from that shooting was later checked in at a hospital after being taken there in a private vehicle.
The killings Monday marked the 115th, 116th and 117th homicides in Kansas City so far in 2022, according to data maintained by The Star. Last year, the city saw 157 homicides, representing the second-deadliest year on record.
Police were asking anyone with information about the crimes to contact homicide detectives at 816-234-5043 or through the anonymous TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS. Rewards of up to $25,000 were being offered for information leading to an arrest in each of the cases.
This story was originally published September 5, 2022 at 11:40 PM.
