Elijah Zakka, 43, was killed in a fatal shooting on March 31, 2020, near East 43rd Street and North Askew Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Officers arriving that late-morning scene found it had shifted from the moment of gunfire to an active homicide investigation; Zakka was identified as the victim.

Officials released few public details about what led up to the shooting—no described confrontation, no publicly stated motive, and no immediate account of who pulled the trigger. Police urged neighbors to come forward with information through the Greater Kansas City Crime Stoppers tips line. No suspect was publicly identified in the initial reports and no arrest, charge, trial, or conviction was announced in those early updates.

This account leaves the basic facts of where and when the killing occurred and little about how it unfolded. Did anyone in the neighborhood see or hear anything that morning at 43rd and Askew?