On the morning of December 16, 2020, 21-year-old Roy Bausby was found dead alongside 20-year-old Gabrial Freeman outside an apartment building in the Canyon Creek Apartments complex at 93rd Street and Bales Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Officers were dispatched just before 11 a.m. after reports of a shooting; both men were pronounced dead at the scene.

Initial accounts indicate a verbal or physical altercation preceded the gunfire. Neighbors reported hearing a sustained barrage of 15 to 20 shots. The killings were recorded as the city’s 178th and 179th homicides that year. As of the first reports, no suspects had been publicly identified and police asked anyone with information to contact the TIPS Hotline.

If anyone has information about what led to the confrontation or saw activity near 93rd and Bales Avenue that morning, please share what is known with investigators.