On the evening of February 12, 2021, 31-year-old Zachary Jewell was shot and killed in Blue Summit, an unincorporated community between Kansas City and Independence, Missouri. A red pickup truck carrying Jewell pulled up at the Inter City Fire Protection District Station on Blue Ridge Boulevard after a woman, later identified as his girlfriend, ran to the station and shouted that she had shot him. Fire personnel found Jewell with a gunshot wound inside the vehicle; he was taken to North Kansas City Hospital and pronounced dead.

Witnesses on the 1800 block of Tilden reported hearing a loud argument and then a single gunshot. Security video from a nearby residence shows the couple leaving a home, with audio capturing the woman telling Jewell to be over it shortly before the shot. The woman allegedly had Jewell get into the truck, drove him to the fire station, then fled.

Sarah Devera was arrested the next day at a south Kansas City motel and told investigators she shot him in self-defense, saying she feared he was reaching for a weapon and alleging prior domestic abuse. Prosecutors charged her with second-degree murder and armed criminal action; she later pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and received a 15-year sentence in February 2023.

Does anyone have information about the argument or the locations on Tilden or Blue Ridge Boulevard that could help clarify what happened that night?