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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 25
Police Find 22-Year-Old Kansas City Shooting Suspect Dead After 5 Roadway Attacks
Updated
Updated · The New York Times · Jun 25

Police Find 22-Year-Old Kansas City Shooting Suspect Dead After 5 Roadway Attacks

3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 25

Summary

  • Kansas City police said a body found Wednesday in a basement is preliminarily Oscar Sanchez-Munoz, the 22-year-old suspected in last week's roadway shootings.
  • Relatives alerted police after finding what appeared to be a body buried under clutter in the basement of his fire-damaged Independence, Missouri, home, which officers had already searched last week.
  • Detectives said the deceased person was wearing the same clothes Sanchez-Munoz had on the night of the June 16 attacks; a medical examiner will confirm identity and determine the cause of death.
  • Police said Sanchez-Munoz carried out five back-to-back shootings that killed one person and wounded several others, ending a weeklong manhunt as Kansas City hosted two World Cup matches at Arrowhead Stadium.

Insights

How did a body remain hidden from police, FBI, and K-9s in a house they searched repeatedly?
With his family reporting schizophrenia, where did the mental health system fail before this deadly shooting spree?