Investigators await search warrant as they look into Lee’s Summit deaths

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. (KCTV) - Lee’s Summit police have been outside a home near NE Todd George and NE Langford Roads well into the night Wednesday awaiting a second search warrant to discover how a couple inside ended up dead.

Lee’s Summit, Missouri, Police Department Sgt. Chris Depue said police received information at 5 a.m. which initiated a call to check on the well-being of the man and woman. At that time, however, they didn’t have their names, their address or even a neighborhood. They had a lot to piece together before they arrived at the home on Churchill Street at 8 a.m.

“By 8:00 in the morning, offices were open. We could make additional phone calls, check records, databases, cross reference names, and that led us to the home,” Depue said.

Depue said officers knocked on the door but got no answer. They didn’t have enough evidence to force entry, he said, so they requested a search warrant. When they received the warrant and went inside, they found the an and woman dead.

The warrant they obtained did not include permission to gather evidence, he said, so they exited soon after to apply for a search warrant that would allow them to examine the home more thoroughly.

Neighbors told KCTV5 the man and woman have lived there for approximately six years with their 17-year-old son. Police said the son was not at the home but has been accounted for.

“Neighbors need to know that there is no threat to the general public,” Depue said. “We have the scene contained. There is no threat. There is no suspect at large. Right now it’s just a matter of us processing and concluding our investigation.”

As of 9 p.m. police had not yet entered the home to gather evidence.

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