In the early morning hours of July 23, 2021, Marcus Monroe Jimenez, 39, was shot and killed on the 7000 block of Monroe Avenue near Gregory Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. Police were dispatched just before 3:00 a.m.; first responders found Jimenez with gunshot wounds and he was pronounced dead at the scene. The death was recorded as Kansas City’s 86th homicide of the year.

Family remembered Jimenez as a Renaissance man with a radiant spirit and a heart of gold. Born to Fredrick M. Barnes and Maria Jimenez, he worked as a laborer, was described as gifted with many talents, and left behind his mother, several brothers, a grandmother, and multiple children. Detectives reported having no suspect information and asked the community to contact the Homicide Unit or the local TIPS Hotline with any information.

Did anyone in the area that night see or hear anything that could help investigators?