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Kansas City Police Investigate Pre-Dawn Homicide on Hardesty Avenue

Detectives are canvassing the Hardesty Avenue area for witnesses or security video.

Overview

  • An ambulance call around 1:30 a.m. sent first responders to the 2500 block of Hardesty Avenue.
  • Paramedics and police found a man unresponsive on a sidewalk with apparent gunshot wounds, and medics later pronounced him dead.
  • KCPD is treating the case as a homicide as detectives work to determine who fired the shots and what preceded the gunfire.
  • Investigators are searching the neighborhood near 25th and Hardesty for eyewitnesses and any home or traffic camera footage, including Ring recordings.
  • Police urge anyone with information to call KCPD Homicide at 816-234-5043 or the Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.