On the night of Monday, March 4, 2019, 18-year-old Noella Bartley was shot and killed in Kansas City, Missouri. Police responded to reports of gunfire around 10:15 p.m. and found Bartley and two other victims inside a vehicle near the intersection of 51st Street and Prospect Avenue. Emergency responders pronounced Bartley dead at the scene; the two others were taken to a local hospital with serious injuries.

Investigators also examined the area of 51st and Wabash Avenue, about a block from where the victims were found. Authorities released no information about suspects or a motive in the immediate aftermath, and by October 2020 no arrests had been announced. Bartley’s death was recorded as the city’s 22nd homicide of 2019. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact investigators.