Fight leaves homeless man dead, another in custody in KC

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A fight between two homeless men along a popular Kansas City trail has left one of them dead and the other in custody.

Police say a woman who lives near Trolley Track Trail told officers that a man came to her home Wednesday night and asked her to call 911 because another man he had been fighting with was not breathing.

Sgt. Tony Sanders said officers arrived at the fight scene to find the second man unconscious. An ambulance was called, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The other man was taken into custody. Police do not know what led to the argument or how the man was killed. But Sanders said there had been a report earlier of two men fighting with chains.

Area residents told police both men were homeless and had been living in the woods by the trail for quite some time.

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Information from: The Kansas City Star, http://www.kcstar.com