KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is investigating a homicide in the area of 20th and Main streets.
Officers were called around 5:45 p.m. Sunday to the area just south on the bridge on a cutting.
An unresponsive man with stab wounds was located on the sidewalk on the west side of Main Street.
He was transported by emergency medical services to an area hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries. KCPD later identified the victim as 37-year-old Joshua Mahl.
A witness alleges the victim and a suspect engaged in an altercation on the bridge before the suspect struck the victim with an unknown object, causing the man to fall to the ground, per KCPD.
When the witness saw the man lying unresponsive, they called police.
Police provided an update Tuesday a person of interest has been identified and taken into custody.
"Detectives will work with prosecutors to present investigative findings and case file for determination of applicable charges," KCPD shared in a news release.
Main was closed in both directions for investigators and detectives to process the scene, meaning Kansas City Streetcar service was temporarily suspended
because of the “blockage on the route," per a RideKC rider alert.
Service resumed by 8:30 p.m. Sunday.
This article has been updated to reflect the incident was a stabbing rather than a shooting.
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