Heat may have led to death

Friday, July 21, 2006 | 12:00 a.m. CDT; updated 5:05 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
BY Associated Press

INDEPENDENCE — A 92-year-old Independence man may have died from heat-related causes as temperatures soared to triple-digits this week, police said Thursday.

Police said Willard C. Becker died Wednesday. He was found inside his suburban Kansas City home, where the air conditioning had stopped working. According to the National Weather Service, temperatures topped 100 degrees in the Kansas City area on Wednesday.

Becker lived with his wife, who was taken to the hospital for evaluation and treatment, authorities said.

Medical examiners will determine whether Becker’s death was heat related.

This week’s high temperatures have caused many heat-related illnesses.

Last year, 25 Missourians died from heat-related causes. The state has had one confirmed death this year — a St. Louis man who died in May, said Lori Buchanan, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Senior Services.

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