Dominic A. Jones was 42 when he was found fatally shot on the sidewalk near a residence at 16th Street and Topping Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The shooting happened in the early hours of Thanksgiving Day, November 26, 2020; first responders arrived at about 4:00 a.m. and Jones, known to friends and family as JJ, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Kansas City Police Department opened a homicide investigation and detectives canvassed the area for witnesses and evidence.

Family and community members left tributes and lit candles in his memory. If anyone witnessed activity near 16th Street and Topping Avenue that morning or has information about Dominic Jones’s death, please share what is known with investigators.