KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City, Missouri, police were called just after 10 p.m. to the 4000 block of North Bennington on a reported shooting.
When officers arrived, they found a man who had been shot at an apartment building.
He was taken to the hospital with critical injuries, but he died just after 11:30 p.m., police said.
The victim was later identified as Dewayne Toombs, 19.
Police continue to search for a suspect in the Northland homicide. No one is in custody at this time.
Investigators are working to determine what led to the shooting.
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