On the afternoon of March 31, 2025, a shooting in the Robandee South neighborhood of Kansas City left two people dead. Officers responding to reports of gunfire in the 9800 block of Marsh Avenue found Derrick DeWayne Rhodes, 32, and his fiancée, Aminah C. Johnson, unresponsive in front of a residence. Both were taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries and were pronounced dead later that afternoon; Aminah was pregnant at the time.

Derrick Rhodes was a Kansas City native, the son of Reginald J. Rhodes Jr. and Christy Watkins. He graduated from Ruskin High School in 2011, studied Mechanical Engineering at Longview Community College, and worked for the City of Kansas City Water Department, Martin Trucking and Total Wine. He was a father to a daughter, AiLani, and was expecting another child with Aminah.

Detectives say the shooting appears to have arisen from an interpersonal dispute involving acquaintances; family members described the shooter as someone the couple had considered a friend. A man taken into custody at the scene was later released pending further investigation, and no charges had been filed in the immediate aftermath. Does anyone have information that could help investigators or knew Derrick and Aminah and what led to that confrontation?