On the evening of August 27, 2020, officers were called to the 4600 block of Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, after reports of a shooting at a gas station. First responders found 41-year-old Patrick J. Hicks inside a vehicle that had come to rest near the station’s entrance with apparent gunshot wounds. He was taken to a nearby hospital and later died of his injuries.

Witnesses and surveillance footage indicate a dark-colored sedan, later identified as a black Chrysler, collided with Hicks’s car at the gas station entrance. Occupants of the Chrysler then fired multiple shots into Hicks’s vehicle. The suspect vehicle was seen with a shot-out front passenger window and fled south on Prospect Avenue.

Hicks, born to Albert and Ruth Hicks, was described by family and community members as a supportive mentor who had worked to help young men after achieving sobriety; he was a certified forklift operator and attended Winnetonka High School. No arrests were immediately reported; investigators asked anyone who recognized the damaged black Chrysler to come forward.

Did anyone see the black Chrysler or the people inside it that night?