18yearold dies one week after triple shooting in KCK, police say
Apr 04, 2025
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department shared new details regarding a triple shooting that occurred on March 26 in KCK.
KCKPD said one of the three victims has died from his injuries in an area hospital. Police identified that victim as 18-year-old Anderson Murcia-Cartagena
, of KCK.
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Additionally, the two other victims remain hospitalized as a result of the shooting, and the incident remains under investigation, according to police.
Initial reports revealed that officers were called to Ridge Avenue near South 16th Street in KCK just before 9 p.m. That's where they found two shooting victims in the street and one man shot in a vehicle.
All three of those victims were taken to the hospital with what police called life-threatening injuries. It was reported that one of the victims remained in critical condition while the other two stabilized.
KCKPD says that, while the investigation is ongoing, they believe there's more to the story.
“We do believe there were others that were involved in,” KCKPD spokesperson Nancy Chartrand said.
“So, this was not these three people shooting at one another, but perhaps these three individuals’ part of a larger group that were shooting at one another.”
Chartrand also shared that over 100 rounds of ammunition were exchanged in the shooting.
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