UPDATE, May 13, 1:20 p.m. | The homicide victim was identified as 39-year-old Lamont A. Todd.
KCPD said there was a person taken into custody Thursday, but they have been released.
UPDATE, May 13, 5:30 a.m. | Around midnight, officers entered the home. No one was inside.
ORIGINAL STORY, May 12 | The latest Kansas City, Missouri, homicide victim was found at about 3 p.m. Thursday at east 34th Street and Forest Avenue.
Officers responded to the area on reports of a shooting and found the victim outside a house.
It wasn't immediately clear what led to the gunfire.
Following the shooting, KCPD was engaged in a standoff with someone near the area where the man was shot and killed.
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