By Rick Pfeiffer
Niagara Falls police are looking for a suspect in the city’s second homicide of 2010.
Officers responded to a call of “shots fired” at an apartment in the Monteagle Ridge housing development, 4600 Hyde Park Blvd., just after 2 a.m. Thursday.
“When they arrived, they found the victim lying on the ground outside Apartment 162,” Falls Detective Capt. William Thomson said. “He had a gunshot wound to the chest that exited through his back.”
Thomson said Lelton Kemp, 22, 1737 Lafayette Ave., was rushed to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized. Kemp was then in the process of being transferred by ambulance to the Erie County Medical Center when he began to experience difficulties and paramedics returned to Memorial.
When they arrived, Kemp was declared dead.
Investigators said Kemp appeared to have been shot by a large-caliber handgun.
The resident of the apartment reportedly called Kemp and a relative after she had become engaged in a dispute with the suspect in the killing. Kemp and the woman arrived at the apartment and he reportedly became involved in the argument.
At that point, Thomson said, Kemp was shot and the suspect fled.
