UPDATE, Jan. 21 | Kansas City, Missouri, police identified the victim as Adam Copeland, 41.
ORIGINAL REPORT | One man is dead in a homicide Tuesday night near East 25th Street and Benton Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri.
Police say officers were called to an apartment just after 9 p.m.
The caller saw a person in a neighboring apartment who appeared to be injured and needed medical attention.
Officers arrived and found a man unresponsive with unknown injuries.
The man died at the scene.
No suspect information was released.
This was the seventh homicide of the year in KCMO, compared to 11 at this time in 2025.
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