Woman And Two Men Killed In Triple Homicide In Missouri

The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is investigating a triple homicide at 28th and Spruce.

Officers were dispatched on a call of gunshots to 27th and Spruce in Kansas City that was elevated to a shooting call with multiple victims while en route.

The shooting happened Saturday just before 4 p.m. When officers arrived, they found three unresponsive shooting victims, one female and two males.

Emergency Medical Services declared all three victims deceased on scene.

KCPD released the identities of the three victims in the homicide. They were identified as 24-year-old Kanen X. Wheaton, 23-year-old Johnnai Owens and 24-year-old Devon Key.

William King, grandfather to Owens, one of the victims of this triple homicide, said he is shocked.

“What I heard was she was going to a birthday party with one of her friends and are over here to meet up, they was only there 10 minutes and a black SUV drove down the street shooting into the crowd and killed three people,” King said.

King described Owens as a kind and god-fearing young lady whose death is truly devastating and heartbreaking to all who knew her.

“My daughter, she can’t believe it right now, and it caught us at a time where we don’t have any funds, we don’t have any way of doing this, and we are already in a bad place, but now this put us in a deeper hole,” King said.

Owens’ family set up a GoFundMe me to help support her funeral and burial expenses. You can donate here.

Detectives are canvassing witnesses as crime scene investigators process the evidence.

KCPD spokesperson Jake Becchina stressed the importance of the public providing any information regarding this incident.

“We don’t have a lot of information on what led up to this right now. We are really going to need the public’s help in this case,” Becchina said. “These three deceased people here are gonna need the public’s help to find out exactly what happened to them.”

Anyone with information is asked to call 816-474-TIPS (8477) or the KCPD homicide unit at 816-234-5043.

There is a $25,000 reward for providing information that leads to an arrest in this case.