On February 21, 2022, Jermaine Jackson, 34, was found dead in the driver’s seat of a white Dodge Journey SUV parked in a residential lot near Linwood Boulevard and Agnes Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. A 31-year-old woman, Ashley Pettiford, was in the front passenger seat and also died from gunshot wounds. Responders found Pettiford’s five-year-old son in the back seat with a gunshot wound to the face; he survived but was critically injured.

The scene, discovered about 1:30 a.m., included multiple shell casings on the ground and shoe prints in the mud around the vehicle. Surveillance footage from a nearby apartment building shows a suspect approach the SUV after it arrived, enter the rear passenger door, briefly go into a nearby building, then return to the driver’s side and fire into the car several times before taking a white plastic bag from the vehicle and fleeing on foot. Investigators noted a distinctive coat and a neck tattoo on the suspect and received an anonymous tip linking those features to a Facebook profile for David Emerson, 20, of Kansas City; further inquiry placed Emerson at the scene and he was located by police on March 4, 2022, after a standoff.

Was anyone in the area the night of February 21 who saw the SUV arrive or noticed a person matching that description?