Police investigate suspicious death of man fatally shot in Kansas City’s Northland
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man who was found fatally shot Friday morning in the front yard of a home in Kansas City’s Northland, a police spokeswoman said.
A neighbor called police about 10:30 a.m. saying that a person was lying in a yard of a home in the 2400 block of Northeast Pence Avenue, which is near Northeast Vivion and Northeast Antioch roads.
The caller told police it appeared the person needed assistance, said Capt. Leslie Foreman, a spokeswoman for the Kansas City Police Department.
Arriving officers discovered that the man had been shot and was unresponsive. He was pronounced dead at the scene, Foreman said.
Police have not ruled the man’s death a homicide, but are investigating it as a suspicious death. Foreman declined to comment on the suspicious circumstances.
If the death is ruled a homicide, it would be Kansas City’s 74th homicide of the year, according to data tracked by The Star, which includes police shootings. At this time last year, the city had recorded 71 homicides.
