(AP) A 40-year-old man has been identified as Kansas City’s first homicide victim of 2014.
Police issued a brief statement Friday naming Jose Medellin as the person found shot to death at an apartment building around 8 p.m. Wednesday. It’s not known if Medellin was a Kansas City resident.
Witnesses at the scene of the New Year’s night killing reported seeing two people running from the building.
Kansas City recorded 106 homicides in 2013.