On April 1, 2019, police in Kansas City, Missouri, found 40-year-old Derrick Cordell White Sr. shot to death inside a car near East 67th Street and Walrond Avenue. His death was ruled a homicide and became the focus of a lengthy investigation that leaned on forensic work.

DNA from the vehicle’s door handle was later matched to Brandon Hill. Ballistics testing tied a handgun found in Hill’s possession during an unrelated arrest to the bullet recovered from White’s body. In May 2020 Hill, then 32 and from Independence, Missouri, was charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action; prosecutors sought $250,000 bond while he remained in federal custody on a separate firearms matter.

The family suffered another loss on November 25, 2023, when 16-year-old Derrick White Jr. was found shot and unresponsive in a Park Avenue home and pronounced dead; investigators treated that death as an accidental shooting and a juvenile was taken into custody for questioning.

If anyone knew Derrick White Sr. or has information about the April 2019 homicide, please share what you remember.