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Damar West, 38, was shot dead outside an apartment building near 30th and Holmes Street in Kansas City, Missouri, shortly before 11 p.m. on November 12, 2018. Police found him with a fatal gunshot wound to the neck and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Initial investigation produced no immediate suspect.

Surveillance footage later showed a distinctive SUV following West’s vehicle moments before the shooting. Investigators traced the rental SUV to a woman who said Marquand R. Simmons had been using it. Cellphone records placed Simmons in the area before and after the shooting. Simmons was arrested in September 2019 and charged with second-degree murder, attempted robbery, and two counts of armed criminal action. He told police he drove the SUV, that others exited—one armed with a rifle—and that he heard gunshots after seeing West run.

Are there witnesses or surveillance images from that stretch of 30th and Holmes Street who can add detail about the SUV or the people who left it?