On the night of July 2, 2020, Pierre Calvin Hill-Williams, a 26-year-old Black man, was fatally shot outside a Conoco gas station at 3500 Prospect Avenue near East 35th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Police found him in the parking lot at about 10:07 p.m. with a gunshot wound to the back of his head; emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. He was a father of two.

Investigators reconstructed the killing from gas station and nearby surveillance. Hill-Williams arrived as a passenger in a white sedan and briefly confronted a man who had been inside the store. Surveillance showed that man leave, extend his right arm and fire a single shot into the back of Hill-Williams’ head; the shooter then returned to a 2019 Nissan Altima and drove west on East 35th Street. Purchases made with a debit card at the store led detectives to 29-year-old Nerville Awuh of Kansas City, Kansas. Police arrested Awuh on July 3, 2020, recovered the Altima and clothing, spent .38 Special casings, a debit card and other items, and charged him with first-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Family members held a vigil at the gas station and described the slaying as senseless; Hill-Williams’ two children lost their father. Does anyone have information that could shed light on the moments before or after the shooting?