One dead, another injured at pair of crime scenes on east side of Kansas City
Kansas City police are investigating a pair of crime scenes on the east side of the city where they found one woman dead and another woman seriously injured Monday morning.
Police were investigating the death as a homicide and were working to determine if the two scenes were related, said Sgt. Phil DiMartino, a spokesman for the Kansas City Police Department. One person was taken into custody, he said.
Officers were first called to a report of a cutting near the intersection of East 27th Street and Quincy Street in the East Community Team South neighborhood around 10 am. When they arrived, they found a woman with laceration wounds. She was taken to a hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
As police were investigating that incident, they received information about the location of a possible suspect, DiMartino said.
Around 10:30 a.m., police arrived at the 6600 block of East 16th Street, in the East Blue Valley neighborhood about two miles north, to investigate that information. There, they found possible crime scene evidence and were directed to a residence where they found a woman suffering from “unknown bodily trauma,” DiMartino said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A person of interest was taken into custody on 16th Street, DiMartino said. Police were working to determine what led to the incidents and whether the two scenes were related, he said.
Anyone with information may reach out to detectives by calling 816-234-5043 or by calling the TIPS Hotline anonymously at 816-474-TIPS.
The killing is Kansas City’s 135th homicide of 2025, according to a database kept by The Star, which includes fatal police shootings. At this point last year, the city had recorded 145 homicides.
