On the evening of August 16, 2018, 41-year-old Tasheika Baker of Lee’s Summit was found with gunshot wounds on the ramp from View High Drive to westbound Interstate 470. The shooting was reported about 10:30 p.m. and followed a confrontation that witnesses said began as a heated argument between a man and a woman inside a stopped vehicle on the ramp.

Lee’s Summit police and firefighters discovered Baker and rushed her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The Kansas City Police Department led the investigation; no arrests or publicly identified suspects have been announced. The man seen arguing with Baker and the reason the pair were on the ramp that night remain unknown.

Anyone who has information about that night, the man seen with Baker, or why they were on the highway ramp is asked to come forward.