Homicide reported in 7200 block of Lathrop

A homicide was reported shortly after 10 a.m. on Sunday, July 19, officers responded to a homicide in the 7200 block of Lathrop Avenue.

According to a spokesman for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, the officers were dispatching on a shooting call and discovered a man with multiple gunshot wounds.

Witnesses told police that two men were working on vehicles in the garage of the residence when they were approached by an unknown man wearing a dark hoodie, the spokesman stated.

The man wearing a hoodie discharged a gun several times, striking one of the men who were working on vehicles, before getting into a waiting vehicle and fleeing, the spokesman stated.

The victim, Christopher Marcus Ingram, 43, Kansas City, Kansas, was taken to a hospital where he died from his injuries, the spokesman stated.

The homicide is under investigation by the KCKPD Criminal Investigation Division, according to the spokesman.

Anyone with information is asked to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS, police said.