Donell Cooper Jr., 38, was fatally shot in Kansas City, Missouri, on the afternoon of Sunday, March 20, 2022, just days before his 39th birthday. Officers responded shortly before 5:00 p.m. to the Jefferson Place apartments near Blue Ridge Boulevard and Holiday Drive after reports of gunfire; Cooper was found unresponsive in the complex parking lot and later pronounced dead. His death was recorded as Kansas City’s 31st homicide of 2022.

Born to military parents in Wurzburg, Germany, Cooper grew up largely in Kansas City, graduated from Southeast High School and attended Covenant Memorial Baptist Church. He lived independently at Holiday Place, had worked at Walmart, and was remembered for interests in sports, writing and art. Investigators canvassed the densely populated apartment complex for witnesses and offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest; no suspect description was released and no immediate arrest was announced.

Did anyone in the Jefferson Place area see or hear anything that afternoon?