Killa City: KCMO homicide No. 105, Nelson E. Hopkins Jr.
Kansas City police say the victim of Tuesday night’s fatal shooting is 17-year-old Nelson E. Hopkins Jr. of Kansas City, Missouri.
KCPD detectives believe Hopkins had left the Plaza Library and caught a bus to 54th and Troost prior to the shooting. Hopkins was shot while walking home on 54th Street.
Around 9 p.m., KCPD officers met with Rockhurst University security on an ambulance call for Hopkins, who was unresponsive, at East 54th and Lydia.
Hopkins was pronounced dead at the scene.
If you saw Hopkins or anyone following Hopkins on the bus or after Hopkins got off the bus, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
