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Kansas City, Kansas police investigate fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon 

A crash between a speeding black Dodge Charger and a white Ford pickup truck on US 301 sent both drivers to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said. Two passengers in the truck died.
A crash between a speeding black Dodge Charger and a white Ford pickup truck on US 301 sent both drivers to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, the North Carolina State Highway Patrol said. Two passengers in the truck died.

Update: Police have identified the victim as 55-year-old James Wilson.

One person was killed in a daylight shooting Tuesday afternoon in Kansas City, Kansas, according to police.

Police officers were dispatched around 12 p.m. to the 400 block of Troup Avenue on a reported shooting, Nancy Chartrand, a department spokeswoman, said in a statement. Inside an apartment there officers found one person, identified as an adult male, dead of apparent gunshot wounds.

Further information about the killing was not immediately available from police.

The homicide case was being investigated by the department’s Major Case Unit, Chartrand said. Police were asking anyone with information to call the anonymous TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.

This story was originally published October 4, 2022 at 6:54 PM.

Bill Lukitsch
The Kansas City Star
Bill Lukitsch covered nighttime breaking news for The Kansas City Star since 2021, focusing on crime, courts and police accountability. Lukitsch previously reported on politics and government for The Quad-City Times.
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