Medical examiner says motorcycle driver shot before crash

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - What appeared to be a deadly motorcycle crash turned into a homicide investigation after a medical examiner determined the driver had been shot before the crash.

The crash was reported shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday after the motorcycle driver went straight into a roundabout in Kansas City, Missouri.

A Police Department spokesman said the motorcycle driver was thrown off his burnt orange Harley Davidson in the crash.

The driver, who was identified as 50-year-old Jeffrey Nemitz of Omaha, Nebraska, was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The Jackson County Medical Examiner determined later that Nemitz had been shot.