Ernest E. Gibson, 63, was shot and killed in the front yard of his Kansas City home in the 4000 block of East 69th Street shortly before 1:00 a.m. on September 22, 2021. Known to family as Gene or Geno, Gibson had been meeting with a visitor who was connected to him through the mother of the visitor’s children when a dispute about a $10 debt from a prior drug transaction turned violent.

Witnesses say the argument escalated to pushing and shoving before Gibson walked back toward his house and was struck by gunfire after the visitor allegedly extended his arm and fired. Phone records showed multiple contacts in the minutes before the shooting between Gibson and a number saved as Termite, which investigators linked to 34-year-old Brandon D. Johnson, and license plate readers placed Johnson’s silver Chevrolet Impala near the scene. Johnson was located later that day at a hotel and prosecutors charged him with second-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Does anyone in the Foxtown East area remember seeing either man or the silver Impala that night?