UPDATE, Sept. 10 | Police identified the victim as Derek Harrison, 50.
ORIGINAL STORY | The death of a man found early Monday morning in Kansas City, Missouri, is being investigated as a homicide after a medical examiner found evidence the victim had been shot.
Officers were sent around 6 a.m. to a medical nature unknown call in the 3200 block of Independence Avenue.
Police found a dead man, and investigators, along with crime scene technicians, began their investigation.
No cause of death could be immediately determined until the examination by the Jackson County Medical Examiner's Office.
No arrests have been made.
This was the 112th homicide of 2025 in Kansas City, Missouri, compared to 110 at this time last year.
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