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KCPD investigating fatal shooting on U.S. 71 ramp

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UPDATE, 2:25 p.m. | KCPD identified the victim in this case as a 36-year-old Shawndele L. Gray.

ORIGINAL STORY, Aug. 26|Kansas City, Missouri, police are investigating a fatal shooting at southbound U.S. 71 at 75th Street.

Police said just before 12:15 a.m. they found a vehicle on fire on the on-ramp from 75th Street.

They then found a man with gunshot wounds inside the vehicle.

He died at the hospital.

Detectives are talking with witnesses trying to find out what led up to the shooting.

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