Kirk Michael Whittaker, 34, was fatally shot while sitting in his car at a Kansas City gas station on March 14, 2022. Officers found Whittaker unresponsive in the driver’s seat of his black Lexus in the 8100 block of Bannister Road around 1 p.m., with a bullet hole in the driver’s side window; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Whittaker moved to the U.S. at 18 on an athletic scholarship, lived in Kansas City, and is survived by a daughter. Loved ones remembered him for music, cooking, and soccer.

Surveillance footage showed a man later identified as 29-year-old Camoi Hendricks getting into Whittaker’s vehicle twice outside the station. A witness on the phone with Whittaker said they overheard a conversation that might have involved an illegal transaction. Hendricks was taken into custody, told detectives he had been there to sell marijuana and described a struggle over a gun in the vehicle that ended with the fatal shot; he was charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action and held in the Jackson County jail.