Bladimir Berzunza

Bladimir Berzunza-Perez was born July 11, 1996. By the time he was 20, he was part of the Kansas City community — a young man with family and ties in the city. Public records and memorial listings identify him by his full name and note his roots in the Kansas City area.

Though many personal details about his day-to-day life remain private in publicly available records, the facts that are known point to a real person whose life mattered to others. He was a Hispanic young man navigating early adulthood in Kansas City. Those who knew him or who have been touched by his memory remember him as a person connected to family and neighborhood — not defined by the circumstances of his death but by the presence he brought to the lives around him.

On September 2016 his life ended far too soon. His body was discovered along Chelsea Avenue in Kansas City, and his death has been documented in local law-enforcement unsolved-homicide listings and memorial registers. The police listing that preserves his name for investigators and the public gives a birthdate of July 11, 1996, and notes the discovery of his remains in September 2016; other memorial registries record September 11, 2016 as the date associated with his loss. While official case records remain focused on investigation, the memory of Bladimir belongs first to his family and friends.

This page honors Bladimir as a young person whose life had meaning beyond headlines or case files. He is remembered here with respect and dignity, acknowledged as someone loved by family and whose absence left a lasting void. The community continues to hold hope for answers while remembering the human life at the center of that hope.