Ivan L. Pearson was 28 when he died in Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday, July 5, 2008, at Truman Medical Center West.

Friends and family held a visitation, and a funeral service was held on the morning of Saturday, July 12, at the Duane E. Harvey Funeral Directors chapel. He was buried at XII Gates Memorial Gardens in Kansas City. Records and news archives from the period do not name any arrests or suspects connected to his death, and the circumstances of his final days remain undisclosed.

If anyone knew Ivan, saw him in Kansas City in late June or early July 2008, or has information about what happened, please come forward.