On the night of Friday, December 3, 2021, 35-year-old Cicely Shirley was killed in a shooting on the 7900 block of East 88th Place in the Fairwood and Robandee neighborhood of Kansas City. Officers found Cicely unresponsive and, despite life-saving measures, she was pronounced dead at the scene. A second adult male was shot and taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Cicely was a mother of six children, ages two to eighteen. Family members described her as a beautiful soul and said they believe the shooting was an act of domestic violence; they organized a fundraiser to cover funeral and medical expenses and to support her children during the holidays. It was reported an 18-year-old son may have been injured in the incident. Police identified a person of interest and sought to bring that individual into custody; no public announcement of an arrest has been made. The Kansas City Police Department offered a substantial reward for information that could lead to an arrest. Cicely’s death was recorded as the 144th homicide in Kansas City that year.

If anyone knew Cicely or has information about what happened that night, please come forward to investigators.