David Smith, 23, was shot before dawn on June 19, 2025, in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and was found unresponsive beside a vehicle near 8th and Central. He was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and died days later, prompting police to open a homicide investigation and identify him publicly as David M. Smith, age 23.
Investigators said the violence followed an interaction in a parking lot with an unknown suspect or suspects shortly before 5:15 a.m., when nearby resid
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