Corpse found

Corpse found.  Springfield police were called around 8 Monday morning to a vacant business on the east side of town to a report of a death.    Responding officers found the corpse of 48 year old Johnny Pendergrast of Kansas City inside.   Police determined Pendergrast had been assaulted. No arrests have been reported in the case, and police asked anyone with information on the death to contact Crime Stoppers. Police say the death marked Springfield’s 25th homicide this year.