KANSAS CITY —Law enforcement authorities are asking the public for help to find suspects in Tuesday's triple shooting that left a 1-year-old boy dead.
On social media, police wrote "You can be part of the solution; call @KCCrimeStop 474-TIPS now, not tomorrow; tonight!
Just before 3a.m. Tuesday, someone fired into a car with 3 adults and 1-year-old Tyron Payton inside in the 2900 Block of E. 33rd. Street..
Two adults and Tyron were hit. The driver went to the KCMO Fife Department station at Linwood and Indiana for help.
Firefighters and medics tended to Tyron and the man and woman who had been injured, police said. All three were taken to a hospital, where the boy later died. The two adults were Tyron's parents.
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KANSAS CITY (AP) — Authorities have identified a child killed in a triple shooting in Kansas City as a 1-year-old boy, making him the city’s youngest homicide victim this year, police said.
Tyron Payton was in the back seat of a car with three other adults when someone opened fire on their vehicle Monday afternoon, police said. The driver of the bullet-riddled car sped to a local fire station to ask for help, authorities said.
Firefighters and medics tended to Tyron and an unidentified man and woman who had been injured, police said. All three were taken to a hospital, where the boy later died.
The child’s death is the 148th homicide this year in Kansas City. At this time last year, 114 homicides had been recorded. The Kansas City Star, which keeps data on homicides in the city, reported that 13 people who were 18 or younger have died in homicides this year, with Tyron being the youngest. All 13 died in shootings.
Federal agents have been sent to Kansas City and a handful of other cities this summer to help fight gun violence, part of a program called Operation Legend. The program is named after a 4-year-old Kansas City boy LeGend Taliferro, who was shot and killed while sleeping in his father’s apartment on June 29.
The federal task force had made more than 1,000 arrests in cities where it has been deployed since early July, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said last month. The task force has sent more than 1,000 agents from several federal law enforcement agencies to cities that have high crime rates.
In Monday's shooting, police said a preliminary investigation showed that the vehicle was stopped in front of a home when someone fired numerous shots into it from outside, hitting the child and two adults. A police spokesman on the scene said there was another adult in car who was not shot.
In a tweet, the city's police department said they were “stunned at this callousness and violence” and that they would not rest until finding out who was responsible for the shooting.
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, who went to the scene of the shooting Monday, lamented the violence.
“My heart breaks again,” Lucas said.
Police said in a news release that detectives were “making headway identifying persons of interest” in the shooting, but asked that anyone with any information about the shooting contact detectives.
“We need your leads, we need to make sure this stops,” Lucas said. “One way we make sure it stops is that those who do these sorts of things are held accountable. Because when you look at the shot up vehicle, you recognize that these are people that had no regard for the life of anybody.”
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KANSAS CITY (AP) — A boy under the age of 5 died and two adults were injured when someone opened fire on their vehicle Monday afternoon, Kansas City police said.
After the shooting that was reported just before 3 p.m., the driver of the car pulled up to a local fire station to ask for help, according to authorities.
Fire and EMS personnel tended to the unidentified man, woman and child, police said, adding that they were taken to a hospital where the boy later died.
The preliminary investigation shows that the vehicle was stopped in front of a home when someone fired numerous shots into the vehicle from outside, striking three people, according to authorities. A police spokesman on the scene said there was another adult in car who was not struck by gunfire.
In a tweet, the city’s police department said they were “stunned at this callousness and violence” and that they would not rest until finding out who was responsible for the shooting.
The child’s death is the 148th homicide this year in Kansas City. At this time last year, 114 homicides had been recorded.
“My heart breaks again,” said Mayor Quinton Lucas, who was also present at the scene.
Both the mayor and police officials asked for anyone with any information on the shooting to contact detectives.
“We need your leads, we need to make sure this stops,” Lucas added. “One way we make sure it stops is that those who do these sorts of things are held accountable. Because when you look at the shot up vehicle, you recognize that these are people that had no regard for the life of anybody.”