Overview
- Officers were dispatched shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday to 16th Street and Fremont Avenue for a reported shooting.
- They found an unresponsive man inside a vehicle with a gunshot wound, and he was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
- Police said the victim had been working on a vehicle when an altercation occurred that ended in gunfire.
- The case is counted as Kansas City's second homicide of 2026 and the second shooting within 24 hours.
- The suspected shooter left before officers arrived, and police requested tips to 816-234-5043 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.