KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City, Missouri, police officers were sent on a shooting at 5:45 p.m Tuesday and found a man shot in a grassy area on the city's eastside.
The man's body was found near East 55th Street and Chestnut Avenue, according to a KCPD news release.
He was unresponsive when taken by ambulance to a hospital where he died a short time later.
No information was available on the victim's identity or what led to the fatal shooting.
Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators were on the scene Tuesday night talking with people in the neighborhood and gathering evidence.
This was the 24th homicide of the year in KCMO, the same number as last year on this date.
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