Update: Kansas City, Kansas police stated that a person is in custody in Kansas City, Missouri, in connection with the home invasion and homicide investigation.
The case is under investigation by the KCKPD’s Major Case Unit. Anyone with information about the case is urged to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS.
Police are searching for a woman in connection with a homicide on Wednesday morning in the 7900 block of Sandusky.
According to Nancy Chartrand, a spokesman for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department, a female probably in her late 20s or early 30s with brown shoulder length hair is considered dangerous. Residents should immediately call 911 if they see her or the red Hyundai Tucson she is driving, she said.
Residents should not have contact with her but should call 911, according to police.
An adult male homeowner on Sandusky was killed earlier on Wednesday, according to police.
Chartrand said police believe the suspect is associated with this homicide. The suspect allegedly confronted the homeowner and stole his red Hyundai.
Police believe a series of incidents involving two vehicle thefts are traced to the same suspect.
Police said a vehicle was stolen from Sam’s Club parking lot at the Legends area at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
This vehicle then got into an accident at 83rd and State Avenue, and police were called about 10:18 a.m. today, police said. The suspect did not stay at the scene of the accident.
While police were at the scene of the accident, they received another accident call from 78th and Tauromee, where the suspect was still in the vehicle that was stolen this morning, Chartrand said.
The suspect then ditched the vehicle and fled, she said.
She broke into a house of an elderly resident, and stabbed a woman there, who was taken to a hospital around 10:30 a.m., police said. The woman is expected to survive, she added.
Officers were searching the area, and a little after 1 p.m. Wednesday, they received a call about a shooting in the 7900 block of Sandusky. An adult male was killed outside his residence, and she took his car, the spokesman stated.
The red Hyundai Tucson has a license plate number of KS 237NLE.
Anyone who sees the suspect or the vehicle she was in should call 911 and stay away, Chartrand said.
The vehicle was last seen eastbound on I-70 near 78th, she said.