On the evening of Tuesday, March 3, 2020, officers on patrol near the 6300 block of Independence Avenue in Northeast Kansas City responded to gunfire just after 8:00 p.m. They found a vehicle in the Hardee’s parking lot with ballistic damage and a male inside suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. The victim was identified as 30-year-old Joseph Patrick Delgado.

Delgado was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and died there on Saturday, March 7, 2020. His death was recorded as Kansas City’s 30th homicide of the year. Investigators processed the scene, documented the damage to the car, and in the days after the shooting reported no arrests. No suspect description, suspect vehicle, or motive has been released as detectives continue to seek information from the community.

If anyone witnessed the shooting near the Hardee’s parking lot or has information about who was involved, please share what is known with the Kansas City Police Department.