LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) - Police in suburban Kansas City have identified a man investigators say shot a woman outside a Lee’s Summit home before turning the gun on himself.
Timothy Batrez, 28, of Lee’s Summit, was determined to have been the shooter and died in the attempted murder-suicide, police said in a news release Friday.
The woman he shot was his aunt, police said. Officials have declined to release her name, but say she is expected to survive her injuries.
The shooting happened Wednesday afternoon in the front yard of the home, and investigators quickly determined that Batrez had shot the woman, then shot himself. Police have not said what led up to the shooting.
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