DShawn L. Marchbanks Jr. was 23 and from Kansas City, Missouri, when he was fatally shot on January 30, 2015, in a highway drive-by on Interstate 49 in Grandview. Marchbanks was driving northbound near the Harry Truman Drive overpass when a Dodge Durango pulled alongside and an occupant fired multiple rounds into his vehicle. He was wounded and taken to a hospital on life support, where he died shortly after; his passenger was injured by shattered glass.

Investigators were told the shooting grew out of an ongoing disagreement from south Kansas City. A passenger with Marchbanks, SirTerry Stevenson, told police he returned fire, then fled and hid two firearms in a restaurant restroom before being questioned. No immediate arrest was announced for Marchbanks’ killing, though associates identified a man named Marcellus Anderson, known as Bullet, and a witness reportedly said Anderson confessed.

Marchbanks’ death ignited retaliatory violence. Believing suspects were at a Walrond Avenue residence, Stevenson, Marchbanks’ cousin Dominque Marchbanks and Sulif Wilkins allegedly fired into the home on May 31, 2015, killing 3-year-old Amorian Hale. Dominque Marchbanks, Stevenson and Wilkins were arrested and charged; a Jackson County jury later convicted Dominque Marchbanks for his role in that retaliatory homicide.

Does anyone have information about the original highway shooting or the people named in these accounts?