KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One teenager is dead after a rolling gun battle Saturday afternoon in east Kansas City, Missouri.
Kansas City police found the victim just after 4 p.m. in the driveway of a house at East 53rd Street and Wabash Avenue.
Firefighters pronounced the shooting victim — identified Sunday as 17-year-old Leighlan T. Fleming — dead at the scene.
There is no word on what led to the gunfire.
A police department spokesman said it appeared the victim and suspects may have been involved in a blocks-long gun battle. This is the second homicide of the day in KCMO.
A man also was found shot to death about 9:30 a.m. Saturday inside a vehicle at the Jubilee Market, 2410 Hardesty Ave.
There has been no arrest in that case.
KCMO has now experienced 117 homicides in 2019.
