UPDATE, Feb. 17, 2 a.m. | Kansas City, Missouri, police have identified the victim as Richard Ennis, 46.
ORIGINAL STORY | A man died Monday afternoon after he was shot in the 2900 block of Brighton Avenue and taken by a private vehicle to the nearby VA hospital.
A neighborhood resident told officers she was inside her house when she heard several gunshots outside, according to police.
She found the victim, an adult male, lying in the street suffering from gunshot wounds.
A second adult male, who may be the shooting suspect, was seen getting into a vehicle and leaving the area in an unknown direction, police said.
This was the 18th homicide of the year in KCMO.
There had been 22 homicides at this time last year.
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