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(KAIR)--A man is dead, and another in custody, following a Leavenworth homicide.
According to a release from the Leavenworth Police Department, it was shortly before 6:55 Wednesday morning that “officers responded to a duplex in the 700 block of Osage Street for the report of shots fired.” When they arrived, officers located the body of a man inside the apartment, then “obtained information about the suspect, who was located a short time and distance away in the 700 block of North 7th Street.”
The suspect, identified in the release as a 33-year-old Leavenworth man, was taken into custody without incident.
Arrested for 2nd degree murder, he was booked into the Leavenworth County Jail.
The investigation is ongoing.
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