Crime

Man found shot Sunday morning outside Kansas City, Kansas, home dies from wounds

Kansas City, Kansas, police were called just after 3:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, to a shooting in the 3700 block of Farrow Avenue where they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds outside a home. A Google Maps street view image from August 2016 shows the general area.
Kansas City, Kansas, police were called just after 3:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023, to a shooting in the 3700 block of Farrow Avenue where they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds outside a home. A Google Maps street view image from August 2016 shows the general area. Google Maps

A man shot early Sunday morning in Kansas City, Kansas, has died, police said.

Officers were called just after 3:30 a.m. Sunday to a shooting in the 3700 block of Farrow Avenue, Nancy Chartrand, a spokeswoman with the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department, said in an email Sunday evening.

There, police found a man suffering from gunshot wounds outside a home. He was hospitalized with critical injuries and died later that day. The victim has not yet been publicly identified.

The killing marks the 18th homicide this year in Kansas City, Kansas, including two fatal shootings by police, according to data kept by The Star.

Authorities ask that anyone with information on the killing contact the anonymous Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).

No other information was immediately available.

Anna Spoerre
The Kansas City Star
Anna Spoerre covers breaking news for the Kansas City Star. Before joining The Star in 2020, she covered crime and courts for the Des Moines Register. Spoerre is a graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where she studied journalism.
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