Killa City: KCMO homicide No. 110

This week’s cover story was wrong as soon as it went to press.

Justin Kendall writes in “The Year in Killa City”:

As this issue of The Pitch goes to press, only 48 hours remain in 2009.

If no one is murdered by the time this issue hits the streets, 2009

will close with 109 homicides in Kansas City, Missouri.

The 110th was last night. At 9:59 p.m., Kansas City, Missouri police responded to a shooting call at a residence in the 5900 block of Cypress Place. There they found a shooting victim, described as a black male approximately 30 years old, showing no signs of life; he was pronounced dead a short time later.

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At 10:17 p.m., they found a second shooting victim at a residence in the 5700 block of Bales; he was taken to a hospital in serious condition. Police believe the second shooting victim was shot at the house on Cypress Place and fled the scene.

Police asked anyone with information to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.