Briguel Perez was 17 when he was fatally shot on May 13, 2026, in Kansas City, Kansas. The shooting happened around 3:30 p.m. in the 1700 block of South 16th Street. Perez and an 18-year-old acquaintance, Luis Yomar Tejada Ceballos, were both found with apparent gunshot wounds and died after being taken to a local hospital.

The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department’s Major Case Unit is handling the double homicide. In the days after the shooting no suspects or arrests had been publicly identified and, as of May 16, 2026, the investigation remained ongoing with no new public leads or persons of interest announced. The two deaths are being reported amid broader concerns about gun violence in the Kansas City area.

Did anyone in the community see or hear anything in the 1700 block of South 16th Street around 3:30 p.m. on May 13 that could help investigators?