Shortly after midnight on Thursday, July 25, 2024, police in Kansas City, Missouri, responded to a reported shooting at a home in the East Community Team South neighborhood, in the 2400 block of Brighton Avenue. First responders found 52-year-old Black male Anthony Lewis unresponsive outside the residence; emergency medical personnel pronounced him deceased at the scene.

Homicide detectives say Lewis was inside the house and became involved in a disturbance or interaction with another individual that escalated into a physical altercation and gunfire. Although the shooting occurred indoors, Lewis was found collapsed outside the property. Officers developed leads at the scene and took a person of interest into custody for questioning; no name or charges were released in the immediate aftermath.

If anyone witnessed the disturbance that led to Lewis’s death or has information about events at the Brighton Avenue residence that night, please share what is known with investigators.