On the morning of February 20, 2022, 50-year-old Jeffrey Erwin Nemitz was found after a single-vehicle crash at the intersection of Benton Boulevard and St. John Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. First responders discovered a wrecked burnt-orange Harley Davidson motorcycle and transported Nemitz to a local hospital; he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

An autopsy by the Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office revealed a gunshot wound, and investigators concluded Nemitz had been shot prior to or during the crash, a finding that reclassified the incident as a homicide. The shooting was recorded as the city’s 20th homicide of 2022, and no arrests were immediately reported.

The case remained open and unsolved, and authorities asked anyone who might have been near St. John Avenue and Benton Boulevard in the early morning hours to contact the TIPS Hotline with information. Did anyone in the area that night see a motorcycle, a disturbance, or vehicles of interest?