On the afternoon of January 30, 2013, thirty-two-year-old Jennifer D. Jones was shot and killed during a road rage confrontation while driving westbound on Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri. Witnesses say the dispute began over a traffic maneuver near Elmwood Avenue, with Jones’s van and a maroon sport utility vehicle swerving at one another as tensions escalated.

The situation turned deadly when the SUV pulled alongside Jones’s van and its driver fired multiple rounds into her vehicle. Passengers in Jones’s van pulled her out and tried to render aid before emergency responders arrived, but she succumbed to her wounds and was pronounced dead. The suspect vehicle was described as a maroon Ford Explorer or Mercury Mountaineer, likely a late 1990s or early 2000s model, with tinted windows and no visible license plates; the shooter was described as a Black female.

No arrest was immediately reported, and the killing has been listed among Kansas City’s unsolved homicides. Police continued to seek public help and at times offered rewards for information leading to identification and prosecution.

If anyone witnessed the shooting or remembers a maroon Explorer or Mountaineer driving in that area on January 30, 2013, please come forward with tips.