UPDATE | Kansas City, Missouri, police have identified the victim as 34-year-old Jose Poole.
ORIGINAL STORY | One man was shot and killed behind an apartment in Midtown Kansas City early Saturday morning.
Kansas City, Missouri, police say they were called to the 3900 block of Baltimore Avenue just after 2 a.m. Saturday, March 7, on a report of the sound of gunshots. The call was later updated to a shooting behind the apartment building, police say.
When officers arrived, they were led to the back parking lot of the apartment building, where they found a man unresponsive with gunshot wounds. Emergency medical services responded and declared the victim dead, KCPD said in a press release.
Based on their preliminary investigation, police believe the shooting took place in the back parking lot of the apartments after the victim had an interaction with one or more people that led to gunfire.
Police did not say they have a suspect or anybody in custody.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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