FBI offers $25,000 reward in Kansas City shooting spree manhunt
FBI agents are offering up to $25,000 for Oscar Sanchez-Munoz, the 22-year-old accused in five Kansas City shootings that left one person dead and four wounded.
A federal reward has been placed on the head of a 22-year-old man police say is at the center of a fast-moving shooting spree that cut across Kansas City’s Interstate 70 corridor and left investigators trying to connect a deadly chain of violence with an earlier gunfire case in Kansas.
The FBI is offering up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Oscar Sanchez-Munoz, whom police and federal authorities consider armed and dangerous. Kansas City, Missouri Police Chief Stacey Graves said five shooting incidents unfolded in close succession on Tuesday evening, June 16, from west to east along the Interstate 70 area. One person was killed and four others were wounded, including three adults and a teenager.
Police said the shootings happened between about 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at locations that included Interstate 670 near Wyoming Road, Interstate 70 near the Paseo and Prospect Avenue exits, and Truman Road at Hardesty Avenue and Bennington Avenue. The teen victim was hospitalized in stable condition. One adult suffered life-threatening injuries, while the other two survivors had non-life-threatening injuries. One of the victims was an Uber driver taking passengers to a Kansas City World Cup game, and officers drove those fans to the match after the shooting.
The search for Sanchez-Munoz moved quickly beyond the roadways where the shootings began. Police said he barricaded himself inside a house in Independence, Missouri, later that night, and a fire broke out at about 12:45 a.m. Firefighters extinguished the blaze, but responders later determined he was not inside. Authorities also said a second police standoff later occurred in Kansas City, Missouri, and Sanchez-Munoz was not arrested at either scene.
The manhunt widened further because police say Sanchez-Munoz is also wanted in a June 11 shooting in Wyandotte County, Kansas, where a car carrying an adult and a child was struck by gunfire. On June 18, the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office filed two counts of criminal discharge of a firearm against him. By Thursday, Kansas City police said the search had stretched into its third day, while investigators still had no motive for the shootings.
Law enforcement officials have urged anyone who sees Sanchez-Munoz to call 911. The FBI’s reward is intended to break the case open with tips that can lead not just to an arrest, but to a conviction, as agencies in Missouri and Kansas continue coordinating over a suspect accused of violence on both sides of the state line.
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