UPDATE: Kansas City police have identified the victim as 14-year-old Derrick Thurman.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A homicide investigation is underway after a teenager was shot and killed in south Kansas City Wednesday morning.
Police were called to a home near East 84th Street and Wayne Avenue at 5:37 a.m. Officers discovered a teenage boy with multiple gunshot wounds outside the home.
At 5:38 a.m., officers were called to a second deadly shooting on Interstate 670.
Police have not yet identified the victim in either incident. Kansas City police have not released any information on a potential suspect for the shooting at 84th and Wayne, or what may have led up to the shooting.
Anyone with more information is encouraged to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS.