A quiet Kansas City morning turned deadly on Monday, July 12, 2021. Officers responded shortly after 9:30 a.m. to reports of a shooting near East 16th Street and Oakley Avenue and were led to a vehicle that had crashed into a fence and power lines in an alley. Inside the car was an unresponsive 25-year-old man with apparent gunshot wounds. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

The victim was identified as Angel Ramos-Negron. It was not immediately clear whether he lived in the neighborhood where the vehicle was found. The Kansas City Police Department opened a homicide investigation; the death was recorded as the city’s 80th homicide of the year. In the period after the discovery, authorities released no information about suspects or arrests and urged anyone with information to contact homicide detectives or the anonymous TIPS Hotline.

The investigation remains open and the family is left without public answers. If anyone saw activity near East 16th Street and Oakley Avenue that morning or has information about Angel Ramos-Negron’s death, please contact the homicide unit or the TIPS Hotline.