UPDATE, Oct. 10 | Police have identified the victim as 20-year-old Za'marion V. Taylor. The investigation is ongoing.
ORIGINAL REPORT | A homicide investigation is underway after a man was shot and killed Thursday night in a convenience store parking lot.
Just before 6 p.m. Thursday, Kansas City, Missouri, police responded to the 1300 block of E. Bannister Road on a shooting.
Upon arrival, officers were directed to a man with gunshot wounds who was unresponsive on the ground next to the business.
Officers rendered aid and called for emergency medical personnel, who responded and declared the victim dead at the scene.
A preliminary investigation revealed that the victim had an interaction with an unknown suspect in the parking lot of the convenience store that escalated to gunfire, which struck the victim.
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