On the evening of April 5, 2019, 17-year-old Deontae Campbell was shot while driving near the Landing Mall at 63rd and Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. Campbell was in the car with another 17-year-old who had been involved in an earlier encounter inside the mall. As Campbell drove away, a man stepped into the street and opened fire. A bullet struck Campbell in the head, the vehicle crashed into a nearby building, and Campbell was taken to a hospital in critical condition; he died the following day. The passenger suffered minor injuries from the crash.

Kansas City Police investigated the incident as a homicide and identified Tracy D. French as a suspect. Surveillance footage showed a man believed to be French exit a vehicle and raise his hand toward Campbell’s car just before the crash. A cell phone recovered at the scene later yielded DNA linking it to French. French was arrested about two months after the shooting; during interrogation he said he had been robbed by the teenagers and that one of them had a gun, but investigators found no gun belonging to the teens at the scene.

Does anyone have information about the events at the Landing Mall that evening or about Campbell’s movements just before he drove away?