Alfadil Sabil was 38 when he was shot and killed on the evening of May 4, 2014, inside an apartment on the 100 block of North White Avenue in northeastern Kansas City, Missouri. He had legally immigrated from Sudan about five years earlier and was staying with friends in the unit when police responded to reports of gunfire. Sabil was found with multiple gunshot wounds, taken to a hospital, and later died of his injuries.

Surveillance footage from the scene captured an earlier altercation between Sabil and another man, and later showed that same man approach Sabil’s apartment, listen at the door, cock a rifle, and fire through the door and wall before fleeing. A witness identified that man as Kyle D. Whitley. Investigators say cellphone records and statements — including a jailhouse call in which a woman described being with Kyle and the incident — tied Whitley to the shooting, and the owner of a vehicle said Whitley had been driven to and from the scene and made a threatening remark after the shots.

In May 2019 the Jackson County Prosecutor charged 30-year-old Kyle D. Whitley with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in Sabil’s death; prosecutors sought a $300,000 cash bond. Anyone with information about Sabil, his movements that evening, or the shooting is asked to come forward.