On the evening of August 28, 2021, 28-year-old Tarey Johnson Sr., a Black father of four, was fatally shot on the east side of Kansas City, Missouri. Officers were first sent to reports of gunfire near East 33rd Street and Wabash Avenue shortly after 7:15 p.m.; a second call directed them a few blocks north to the 3000 block of Olive Street. Johnson was found lying in front of his longtime family home with multiple gunshot wounds, taken to a hospital in critical condition, and died overnight into August 29.

The house where he was shot had been in his family since the 1930s and was where he was raising two sons and two daughters, then ages 8 to 11. The shooting reopened a generational wound: Johnson’s father was murdered six blocks away in 1995 when Johnson was three, and that earlier killing also remains unsolved. As of late 2025, no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests announced; authorities have not released a motive or a shooter description.

Does anyone in the neighborhood have information about the night of August 28, 2021, or memories of the family that could help investigators?