KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Wyandotte County judge has released an affidavit detailing the investigation into a deadly March 2025 shooting in Kansas City, Kansas.
The shooting left one man dead and two others injured.
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Investigators believe Rene Najera and several others ambushed two cars, a blue Honda Civic and a gray Mazda, when they passed through the 16th Street and Ridge Avenue intersection on March 26.
According to court documents, surveillance video shows Najera pulling a gun from a backpack before six or seven other people grabbed guns from the same backpack and walked west on Ridge toward 16th Street.
The group then started shooting at the Honda, hitting it more than 200 times with rounds from at least seven different firearms.
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Police found three men shot at the scene. Anderson Murcia Cartagena, the driver of the Honda, later died from his injuries. Dalton Browning and Najera were both wounded. Investigators say members of his own group accidentally shot Najera.
DNA testing linked Najera to a .223-caliber AR pistol recovered at the scene, and detectives concluded that neither Cartagena nor Browning fired any shots.
Najera now faces charges of first-degree murder, aggravated battery and aggravated assault.
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