On the morning of August 9, 2020, police were called to a home near 37th Street and Benton Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri, after reports of a shooting. Officers found 28-year-old Derrick J. Davis Jr. inside the residence suffering fatal gunshot wounds. Davis, known to family as a dedicated family man who hosted weekly Family Fridays, was an expectant father; his daughter was born hours after his death.

Kansas City Police and the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office later identified a suspect and filed charges in connection with the killing. The case did not reach trial: the accused died while in hospital care, and prosecutors dismissed the charges, leaving no conviction. The family and neighborhood mourned Davis as the glue that kept them together and marked his death during a year of unusually high homicides in the city.

Did anyone in the Oak Park area know Derrick or see anything that morning?