On the night of July 6, 2010, violence in the 2400 block of Myrtle Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, left 43-year-old Exiquio Martinez dead. Martinez and another man were outside at about 11:50 p.m. when three unknown men approached. One produced a handgun and aimed it at Martinez’s stomach. During a struggle to disarm the gunman the second victim grabbed the weapon, and Martinez ran across the street to escape. A suspect fired, striking both men.

Both victims were taken to a nearby hospital; the companion survived with non-life-threatening injuries, but Martinez later died of his wounds. Witnesses and investigators described the suspects as three black males who fled west on 25th Street. Evidence was collected and Crime Stoppers offered rewards, but no arrests had been made.

Did anyone in the neighborhood remember seeing three men running west on 25th Street that night or have other information about what happened?