KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One person is died in a shooting around 2:30 p.m. near South 22nd Street and Birch Drive — the first of two homicides Friday afternoon in Kansas City, Kansas.
According to KCK police, officers were called to the scene for a reported shooting and found a man dead from an apparent gunshot wound.
Police later identified the victim as 42-year-old Marlon A. Gatlin, of Kansas City, Missouri.
The shooter had fled the scene on foot, but was located a short time later and apprehended without incident.
Argentine Middle School was placed on temporary lockdown as a precaution.
The school was released from lockdown and students were allowed to leave school on time.
A second homicide, which police do not believe was connected to this incident, took place less than two hours later and roughly five miles away near North 8th Street and Barnett Avenue.
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