KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City, Missouri, police are investigating a late-night homicide.
Just after 10:30 p.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to 75th Street and Bruce R. Watkins Drive on an ambulance en route.
Police said passing drivers saw a person lying in the roadway and called 911.
When officers arrived, they found a man, later identified by police as 18-year-old Deon Porter, who had been shot.
Porter was taken to a hospital, where he died.
There's no word on what led to the gunfire or any suspects.
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