On the night of May 31, 2016, Hernandez Green, a 45-year-old Black man, was shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex on the 6000 block of Blue Hills Road in Kansas City, Missouri. Responding officers found him about 9:45 p.m. with life-threatening gunshot wounds; he was taken to a hospital and later died of his injuries. Witnesses said Green had been in a verbal argument with another man who then produced a firearm, shot Green, and fled the scene. Police canvassed the area but made no immediate arrest.

The loss echoed an earlier family tragedy: Green’s son, Hernandez Derrell Green II, was fatally shot outside a vehicle on June 30, 2014, in the 4500 block of Park Avenue. Investigators reported challenges in both cases, and no suspect or charges had been announced following the 2016 killing. If anyone has information about the May 31, 2016 shooting or the earlier 2014 case, please come forward.