KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City, Kansas, reported its second homicide Friday afternoon.
The incident happened around 4:15 p.m. near North 8th Street and Barnett Avenue.
Officers responded to the scene on reports of shots fired.
Upon arrival, police found an adult male dead outside of a home.
KCKPD public information officer, Nancy Chartrand, said the incident happened following an argument.
The suspect fled the scene on foot before police arrived, but a person of interest in the deadly shooting was located a short time later several blocks away.
The person was taken into custody without incident, according to updated information from KCKPD.
The homicide comes less than two hours and roughly five miles from an earlier homicide at South 22nd Street and Birch Drive.
KCK police said the two shooting incidents were not connected.
This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available.
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