3 Homicides in Kansas City: Teens and Man Dead

0:00It's April 20th. You're listening to Kansas News today, AI-powered local news. Kansas City saw a rough Sunday night with three separate shootings that left two teens in a man dead, all within three hours and ruled as homicides. By police, Captain Jake Bechina says the first hit, just before 6.30 pm, in the Ruskin Hills area, where 17-year-old Demetrius Smith got shot. During an exchange of gunfire and later died at a hospital after being rushed there in a private car. Meanwhile, officers caught wind of a second shooting on the east side in olden farms, where 15-year-old Kavazion Williams was gunned down, outside a home and driven to a hospital. But he didn't make it. Not long after, in the Lyndon Hills neighborhood, 29-year-old William J. Hunter was found shot in front of a house following some kind of argument that turned deadly. The shooter took off before cops arrived. Police activated extra resources to handle all three scenes thoroughly, marking these as the city's 33rd, 34th, and 35th.

1:03Homicides this year, fewer than the 45 by now last year. They're urging anyone with info to hit up detectives at 816-2345-043 as investigations