On the early morning of April 19, 2021, Marquis Lavance Hooker, a 20-year-old Black man from Kansas City, Missouri, was fatally shot. Officers were initially dispatched to the 6700 block of The Paseo near 67th Street after reports of gunfire, but learned while en route that a private vehicle had brought three gunshot victims to a local hospital. Marquis was pronounced dead at the hospital; two other victims survived, one with life-threatening injuries and one with non-life-threatening wounds.

Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators canvassed the area for witnesses and processed evidence. Marquis was remembered by family as a music lover, a devoted father to his son Messiah Lavance Hooker, and engaged to be married to his fiancée Kennyae Williams. The Kansas City Police Department offered a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest, and the investigation remained open with no suspects publicly named or charged as of late 2025.

Did anyone in the area on April 19, 2021, see or hear anything that could help move this case forward?