On August 27, 2019, officers in Kansas City, Missouri, responded to a transitional living apartment complex near West 75th Street and Washington Street after reports of a shooting. Around 1:00 a.m. they found 20-year-old Samuel B. Cummins inside his apartment with multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso. Witnesses and surveillance footage show a neighbor walking to Cummins’ door, knocking, then firing a handgun through the open doorway ten times before briefly entering the unit and returning to his own apartment.

Police focused on a fellow resident, 23-year-old Isiah J. Ferguson, who initially refused to exit his apartment and prompted an evacuation before surrendering at about 4:15 a.m. Prosecutors charged Ferguson with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Investigators say Ferguson allegedly admitted to the shooting, told detectives he acted on suspicions about the victim, and that a 9mm handgun with matching ammunition was recovered hidden in a laundry hamper. Ferguson also disclosed a prior diagnosis of schizophrenia.

If anyone knew Samuel, the building layout, or has information about that night, please share what you know.