SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - A man found dead inside a vacant business earlier this week was the victim of a homicide, Springfield police said.
Officers were called around 8 a.m. Monday to a vacant business along East Seminole by someone reporting a death, police said in a news release. Arriving officers found the body of Johnny Pendergrast, 48, of Kansas City, inside. Police determined Pedergrast had been assaulted.
No arrests had been reported in the case by Thursday morning, and police asked anyone with information on the death to contact Crime Stoppers. The death marked Springfield’s 25th homicide this year, police said.
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