May 24, 2021

Police ID 18-year-old woman shot, killed in Kansas City

Posted May 24, 2021 2:02 PM

KANSAS CITY (AP) — Kansas City police have identified a woman who shot and killed over the weekend in the northeastern end of the city in the North Blue Ridge neighborhood.

Officers were called around 3:45 a.m. Sunday to the intersection of East Winner Road and Wallace Avenue and found 18-year-old Kailey Love with gunshot wounds, police said in a news release. First responders tried to save Love’s life, but she died at the scene, investigators said.

Police said a suspect was arrested at the scene.

The shooting was the 60th homicide of the year in Kansas City. At the same time last year, there had been 70 homicides.