One dead after shooting early Sunday in Kansas City’s Northland
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A man is dead after a shooting Sunday in Kansas City’s Northland, police said.
Police were called around 2:30 a.m. to the 7800 block of North Oak Trafficway, where they found people performing lifesaving measures on a man suffering from gunshot wounds, according to Alayna Gonzalez, spokesperson for the Kansas City Police Department.
The victim, later identified as 47-year-old Samuel Aro, was taken to a hospital and died there around 7 a.m. A verbal dispute may have occurred between Aro and another man that escalated into gunfire, Gonzalez said.
The other man, who police have not identified, left the area before officers arrived.
The shooting is Kansas City’s 30th homicide of 2025, the same number of homicides in the city as this time last year, according to data tracked by The Star, which includes police shootings.
This story was originally published March 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM.
