Kansas City, Kan., police today said that a homicide at 18th and Central Avenue on June 19 may have started with a road rage incident.
Detective Daniel Villalpando said the victim, Ramon A. Minjares-Garcia, a resident of Camargo, Chihuahua, was shot and killed near 18th and Central.
He said the incident was extremely concerning because it could have been anyone.
The detective said police are seeking information about the incident. The suspects were in a reddish or red-orange sport utility vehicle.
Four people were in a blue Honda Civic that had been following the SUV around 5 a.m., Villalpando said. The SUV kept hitting its brakes, and the Civic passed the SUV, coming alongside it around 18th Street, he said. The Civic was planning to turn east on Central when the shooting occurred, he said. The SUV turned southbound on 18th.
One of the occupants of the Civic, a man in his 20s, died.
A male who was about 30 years old and a female were in the SUV, Villalpando said.
He said the victim’s friends told police they had asked people in the suspect’s vehicle if they could help them or what was going on, and that was all that was said before the shooting. The victim’s friends said they did not know the people in the suspect’s vehicle.
So far, there hasn’t been any information provided to police from the community, and Villalpando asked for the community’s assistance in this case.
He asked anyone with information to call the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS or the Police Department at 913-573-6020.
When asked at the news conference today at the chief’s meeting room at police headquarters if there was any comment from the Kansas City, Kan., police about the shooting deaths of five police officers last night in Dallas, Texas, he said there was no comment.