KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man was shot and killed Wednesday morning in Leavenworth.
Officers were dispatched to the 700 block of Osage Street after receiving a report of shots fired shortly before 7 a.m., according to a release from the Leavenworth Police Department.
After arriving at the duplex, officers discovered a man, who has yet to be identified, dead inside an apartment.
The investigation led to a suspect, who was located and arrested "a short time and distance away” in the 700 block of North 7th Street.
The suspect is a 33-year-old man from Leavenworth, who was booked into the Leavenworth County on suspicion of second-degree murder.
This is the first homicide in Leavenworth in 2022. There were four last year and three in 2020. There were a total of three in 2018 and 2019 combined.
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