KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police in Kansas City, Missouri, have upgraded a suspicious death to a homicide after a man's body was found near a pond at Blue Valley Park on Sunday.
A person was walking in the park near Topping Avenue and East 24th Street when they noticed the body.
The person reported the body to police at around 9 a.m. On Monday, the victim was identified as 18-year-old Javier Cervantes.
An official cause of Cervantes' death has not been released yet.
Initially, his death was being investigated as a suspicious death.
Cervantes' death marked the 148th homicide in KCMO in 2022.
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