A 16-year-old Black male, Derrez Green, was shot in Kansas City, Missouri, in the early morning hours of October 9, 2021. Officers responding around 12:45 a.m. found him inside a vehicle in a parking lot on the 5300 block of Persimmon Trail with life-threatening gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital and remained there for several days before dying of his injuries on October 13, 2021.

Police said the scene was processed and detectives appealed to the public for information, but no suspect details were released immediately and no arrests were reported in the days after the shooting. Green’s death was recorded as the city’s 120th homicide of 2021 and as the 10th child under 18 shot and killed in Kansas City that year. The investigation remained open.

If anyone has information about what happened that night or about people who were in the area of Persimmon Trail on October 9, please contact the TIPS Hotline.