KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An investigation is underway after police in Kansas City, Kansas, shot a suspect while responding to a stabbing call in the city's Argentine neighborhood.
The shooting took place about noon Tuesday afternoon near Strong Avenue and south 37th Street, according to KCKPD spokesperson Nancy Chartrand.
Chartrand said police took numerous phone calls from people who said a man was stabbing a woman on the corner of south 34th Street and Metropolitan Avenue.
A relative who witnessed the attack said she did not know the man.
The stabbing victim just finished volunteering at a food pantry in a nearby church.
The woman, who name has not been released, was in surgery Tuesday night.
Officers spread out through the neighborhood and found the suspect armed with a large knife near the intersection of south 35th Street and Strong Avenue, Chartrand said.
The officers ordered the suspect several times to drop the knife, but he charged at the officers, Chartrand said.
Officers shot and critically wounded the suspect, a man in his 30s.
A preliminary investigation found the suspect fatally stabbed a family member in his 70s at nearby senior living facility. Police couldn't immediately say how they were related.
The name of the man stabbed to death has not been released.
Staff at the living facility flagged responding officers down and told them about the stabbing victim, Chartrand said.
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