CSW BREAKING: KC-MO Records Homicide Late Christmas Eve

A shooting in the 1000 block of East 43rd Street in south-Midtown has left the victim dead.


The call was dispatched by Center Zone police at 11:25 p.m.- with fire & EMS dispatched four minutes later- on the report of "a black male lying in the doorway" of a residence there.

He had been "shot in the head (neck)-" and was declared dead-on-the-scene by EMS shortly before midnight.


There were two suspect descriptions- both of black males with one described as "wearing a dark hoodie" and the other "wearing a red checkered shirt."


Police crime-taped off a large area round the crime scene- including several blocks of Troost.