Kansas City police investigate suspicious death near East 60th Street and Agnes Avenue
Kansas City detectives were investigating the discovery of a body on Friday afternoon in the city’s South Town Fork Creek neighborhood as a suspicious death.
Police officers and emergency medical personnel were dispatched around 2:30 p.m. to the area of East 60th Street and Agnes Avenue on a report of an unresponsive person on the ground, Sgt. Jake Becchina, a department spokesman, said at the scene. A man was found there outdoors, in a grassy area near a vacant lot, dead of an unknown cause, Becchina said.
Becchina said the Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office was assisting with the investigation by determining the suspected cause of death and helping identify the man. He noted the death may have stemmed from natural causes, though he said homicide detectives and other investigators were processing the area for evidence as a precaution.
“There’s a lot of unknown right now, and they’re going to be working to find out what they can,” Becchina said, adding: “The circumstances are suspicious enough just based on the fact that no one was with him and that he was found unresponsive that they want to take these steps at this early stage in the investigation.”
Police received no other recent calls for service to the block prior to the emergency medical call, Becchina said.
Further details about what led to the man’s death were not available as of Friday afternoon.
