KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City, Missouri, police are investigating a homicide overnight, a crash at 12th and Benton, and another shooting that may possibly be related.
Officers were initially called at 4 a.m. to 12th and Benton on a crash.
Police discovered an unoccupied vehicle that appeared to have been involved in a crash.
KCPD also said it appeared there were indications of gunshot activity in the vehicle.
As police began canvassing the area, they were led to an apartment building nearby where they found a man who had been shot.
Emergency medical services declared him dead on the scene.
He was identified as Michael B. Waylee, 20.
The preliminary investigation indicated the vehicle was westbound on 12th traveling at a high rate of speed just after 1 a.m.
It then sideswiped a vehicle at the intersection of Benton, lost control and crashed into a parked vehicle just west of Benton.
Following the crash, the victim exited the vehicle and fled the scene.
Detectives are also investigating a reported shooting at 12th and Hardesty just after 1 a.m. At that shooting scene, one adult male was shot and transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Detectives are investigating the potential connection between the two scenes.
Benton is about a mile and a half west of Hardesty.
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