Argument ends Wednesday night with 1 man dead, suspect in custody

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — UPDATE, Sept. 17 | The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department released the identity of the person shot and killed Wednesday.

The victim has been identified as 34-year-old James Heberling.

ORIGINAL REPORT, Sept. 16 | An argument between a group of people who know one another ended Wednesday night in Kansas City, Missouri, with a deadly shooting and a suspect in custody.

Officers were sent about 8:30 p.m. to the 3600 block of Truman Road on reports of a shooting.

They found the unresponsive shooting victim and he was declared dead at the scene.

A description of a possible suspect in the shooting was broadcast over the police department's radio system. Officers from the Rapid Deployment Squad got to the scene and found a man who matched the description of the shooting suspect, according to a police department news release.

It was quickly determined that a group of people known to each other began arguing, and that argument ended with the deadly shooting.

The victim's name was not released Wednesday night.

No word on charges against the suspect in the shooting.

This was the 95th homicide of the year in KCMO. There were 115 at this time last year.

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