KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man died in a shooting Monday afternoon in east Kansas City, Missouri, police said.
The shooting unfolded just before 4 p.m. in the 4200 block of E. 56th Street.
Officers were in the area and heard gunfire and later went to the area to investigate.
As they were doing so, police received multiple calls of a shooting near Jackson Avenue and east 56th Street.
Officers responded to the scene and located 18-year-old Joseph Hill unresponsive in the front yard of a home. Hill was transported to an area hospital and later died.
No word on what led to the violence, which marked KCMO's 162nd homicide of 2023.
At this time in 2020 — the city's deadliest year on record — KCMO had recorded 163 homicides.
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