Overview
- Police responded around 8:30 a.m. to a home in the 1400 block of Oakland Avenue after a report that an armed person was holding a resident’s adult son at gunpoint.
- Negotiators secured the victim’s safe release, and special-operations officers entered the home about 1:45 p.m. to take the suspect into custody without further incident.
- The arrested individual faces numerous felony charges tied to the Kansas City, Kansas disturbance.
- KCKPD says the person is wanted in connection with a homicide in Kansas City, Missouri, though officials have not released the suspect’s identity or specified which case.
- Authorities ask anyone with information to contact the Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers TIPS hotline at 816-474-8477.