Week's End Brings Kansas City MO Homicide Total to 108

The shooting and killing of a possible would-be robber of an Old Northeast KC-MO Friday afternoon has brought the 2011 homicide total to 108 dead.


The latest killing occurred at an Express Stop convenience store at 5712 Independence Avenue just before 3 p.m..

A clerk at the store shot and killed a man police report to be in his mid-20's- but police haven't yet confirmed that an attempted robbery was taking place.


Just before 1 p.m. Wednesday- police found a female dead by unknown cause in a motel room at 600 Paseo.

The Jackson County coroner has reported that woman's death- the victim identified by police as "Sherilyn A. Hill- was a homicide.

Ms. Hill's death was homicide number 107 for the year- surpassing 2010's total of 106.