On the evening of Sunday, July 7, 2019, 25-year-old Ki’essence Pelton was shot while a passenger in a vehicle near 39th Street and Myrtle Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The driver took her to a nearby hospital, but Pelton, a mother of two daughters aged five years and 10 months, was pronounced dead. Two days later her cousin, 18-year-old Charles Pelton, was also fatally shot in a church parking lot; the family faced planning two funerals in quick succession.

The Kansas City Police Department opened an investigation into Ki’essence Pelton’s killing, and her case appears on the department’s list of unsolved homicides. There have been no public announcements identifying suspects or any arrests in her death.

Did anyone in the community see a vehicle or people near 39th Street and Myrtle Avenue that night who might help explain what happened?