KCPD respond Saturday to calls of a cutting that left one man dead near Bales Avenue
Update: Police identified the victim as 26-year-old Jesus Diaz de Leon.
Kansas City police are investigating a homicide Saturday afternoon in the Palestine West and Oak Park Northeast neighborhood.
Officers responded to a cutting call just before noon around the 3800 block of Bales Avenue, according to Officer Donna Drake, a spokeswoman with the Kansas City Police Department.
When police entered a residence, they discovered an adult male suffering from trauma wounds. Emergency medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.
Detectives are surveying the neighborhood to gather more information from bystanders.
“It’s broad daylight,” Drake said. “We’re hoping that, on a Saturday, people were home and may have seen something or even just heard something from inside their residence.”
The victim’s death is Kansas City’s 16th homicide recorded this year, according to data kept by The Star. Last year, the city suffered the second-deadliest year on record with 171 killings, the majority of which were the result of gun violence.
This story was originally published February 4, 2023 at 1:08 PM.
