On October 14, 2019, 30-year-old Brianna BB Hill, a Black transgender woman, was shot and killed inside a home on Hardesty Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Police responding to a 911 call found Hill deceased and the man who shot her, Allan Robinson, waiting at the scene; Robinson was taken into custody without incident. According to Robinson and a witness who had been staying at the residence with Hill, an argument began when Robinson was preparing to leave for work and he and the witness asked Hill to leave. The two men say Hill sprayed them with pepper spray and Robinson fired what he described as two warning shots before shooting Hill, who was later found collapsed in a bathroom and appeared to have been struck twice.

Robinson, then 60, was charged in January 2020 with one felony count of unlawful use of a weapon; prosecutors noted his claim of self-defense in the charging documents. He did not stand trial for murder and received diversion for the gun charge. Months before her death, Hill was the subject of a widely seen incident in May 2019 in which two Kansas City officers, Matthew Brummett and Charles Prichard, were filmed using force during an arrest; the officers were later charged with third-degree felony assault. Anyone with information about Hill, her last movements, or the events at the Hardesty Avenue residence is asked to come forward.