On the evening of September 27, 2018, 23-year-old Dominique Walker was found in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 2100 block of Wheeling Avenue in Kansas City with fatal gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene; the city labeled the killing as its 97th homicide of the year.

Surveillance from the complex captured at least two people arriving in a white Mercury Mountaineer and fleeing in that SUV after gunshots were heard. Investigators recovered multiple spent shell casings from the parking lot. The suspect vehicle was later found in Kansas City, Kansas, and police executed a search warrant at an apartment linked to the girlfriend of 28-year-old Skylar M. Williams, seizing a pistol that ballistics testing tied to Walker’s killing.

Williams was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. He admitted being at the complex and hearing a gun battle but claimed he arrived and left alone; he would not identify others, saying he feared retaliation. Bond was set at $250,000. Anyone with information about Dominique Walker or the events that night is asked to come forward.