On the evening of November 23, 2016, Arthur L. Mourning, 49, was at his Kansas City home near East 49th Street and Bellefontaine Avenue when a knock at the door around 5:50 p.m. led to a fatal encounter. When he answered, an individual robbed him at gunpoint and then shot him. Mourning was taken to a local hospital and died hours later, just a day before his family expected him for Thanksgiving dinner.

Known affectionately as Lee Lee, Mourning was a father of six, a brother and friend, a Paseo High School graduate who grew up in the same neighborhood, and someone who enjoyed barbecuing and the Pittsburgh Steelers. He had worked at Guy’s Potato Chips until a car accident caused a hand injury that prevented him from working.

Detectives investigated the homicide and by 2018 had received some information about potential suspects, but no arrests were announced. The case was listed as the city’s 110th homicide of 2016 and remains unsolved. Can anyone who knew Arthur or who has information about that November 23, 2016 shooting come forward?