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Police fatally shoot man with knife outside Kansas City home

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police investigators in Kansas City say officers called to a home for a domestic disturbance fatally shot a man who left the home wielding a knife. Officials say the shooting happened shortly before 3 a.m. Monday in the city’s Blue Hills neighborhood. Police were called to the home for a report of a domestic disturbance involving a child. KSHB-TV reports the Missouri State Highway Patrol later identified the man as 36-year-old Shawn W. Wilson of Kansas City. The patrol says Wilson was shot after he left the home holding a knife and refused commands to drop it. Patrol Sgt. Bill Lowe says the man was taken to a hospital, where he died. 

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