On December 6, 2013, officers in Kansas City, Missouri, found 33-year-old Eric R. Harrell dead from multiple gunshot wounds to his abdomen, leg, and head. He was lying just inside the front door of the Quincy Avenue home where he lived.

The day before the shooting Harrell had a dispute with his roommate, Monique Ransom, who was arrested for assaulting him. While being released from custody she was overheard making threats to kill him when she returned. She did return the next day with her brother, Omar T. Muhammad, and a third person who stayed in the vehicle. According to court testimony, Ransom and Muhammad entered the house during an attempted robbery; when Harrell resisted, he was shot. Witnesses reported hearing the gunfire and seeing Ransom and Muhammad flee, and one witness later said Muhammad described the killing while jailed on unrelated charges.

Both siblings were convicted by a Jackson County jury in 2017; a judge later imposed life sentences for the murder convictions. Does anyone have additional information about Harrell’s life or the events on Quincy Avenue that night?