On the afternoon of October 12, 2019, police in Kansas City responded to reports of gunfire near East 53rd Street and Wabash Avenue and found 17-year-old Leighlan T. Fleming dead in the driveway of a private residence. Authorities determined he had sustained fatal gunshot wounds; his death was counted as the city’s 120th homicide that year.

Investigators described the incident as a rolling gun battle across several blocks. Numerous shell casings were recovered over a two-block area, and police said Fleming appeared to have been chased by his assailants before collapsing. He did not live at the house where he was found and had no known connection to the residents.

Despite the public nature of the shooting and ballistic evidence, no suspects or detailed descriptions of vehicles or persons of interest were released immediately, and the case remained listed among unsolved homicides in Missouri as detectives continued to reconstruct the sequence of events. Did anyone in the neighborhood see something that weekend that could help investigators?