On the late evening of Sunday, December 3, 2017, 24-year-old Zachary Michael Lee Pearce was walking home near 40th and Walnut in Kansas City after dinner with a friend when a dark-colored SUV pulled up beside them. At least one passenger got out with a black handgun and demanded their belongings. Both men gave up wallets and cell phones, but the gunman nonetheless fired, fatally wounding Pearce. The shooter fled in the SUV, described variously as blue or possibly maroon, driven by a woman and carrying at least one other male passenger; the vehicle was last seen east on 40th before turning south on Warwick Boulevard.At about 11:45 p.m. emergency crews found Pearce in the street; he died of his injuries. Items taken from him were later recovered near 40th and Warwick, suggesting the robbers discarded the property shortly after the shooting. Pearce was studying to become a paralegal and worked at his family’s business; police described him as intelligent, warmhearted, and opinionated. The case remains unsolved and a reward has been offered for information that leads to an arrest and filing of charges.

Did anyone in Kansas City see the dark-colored SUV or the people in it that night?