Michelle L. Russell was 19 and had been accepted into the criminal justice program at Penn Valley College when she was killed in late November 2013. Friends and family remembered her as kind and determined to help others; she worked as a hostess.

Events began the night of Thursday, November 21, 2013, when a reported shooting at a Motel 6 on Northwest Prairie View Road produced a crime scene but no victim. A motel guest later told police they heard a gunshot and saw a woman with a head wound on the sidewalk before two men drove off with her. That same evening a vehicle carrying a shooting victim matching Russell’s description reached North Kansas City Hospital but left before the victim could be admitted. In the early morning of November 22 the car was found abandoned near Centerpoint Medical Center in Independence and Russell’s body was inside.

Police identified 26-year-old Joel Bravard as a person of interest; he was already wanted on a Platte County warrant. Officers who went to question him encountered gunfire and one officer was shot in the leg. A standoff concluded with Bravard found with a life-threatening gunshot wound; he later died and authorities confirmed his wound was self-inflicted. No arrest has been announced in Russell’s homicide.

Did anyone in Kansas City see the vehicle or the two men on the night of November 21?