Dylan Edwin Hill was 26 when he left his Lee’s Summit home the night of December 11, 2018, telling his wife he was going to meet a friend. About thirty minutes later police answered reports of gunfire in a dead-end area near East 80th Terrace and James A. Reed Road in southeast Kansas City and found Hill inside his blue pickup truck, running and suffering multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Neighbors reported hearing two different weapons fired, and bullets had struck the car seats belonging to his two young children.

No suspects have been publicly identified or charged and the case remains unsolved. The victim’s father has mounted a public push for information, placing billboards and increasing reward money, and believes Hill was lured to the meeting by someone he knew and had been communicating with beforehand. Anyone with information about Hill’s movements that night or who he might have been meeting is asked to come forward.