A dispute on the evening of February 5, 2025, in Kansas City, Missouri, escalated into gunfire that left 51-year-old Maurice Baker dead. The shooting happened around 8:30 p.m. on Eastwood Trafficway after a heated argument involving several people. When police arrived they found another person with gunshot wounds who was taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries; Baker had been taken to a hospital by a private vehicle and later died, with an obituary listing his date of death as February 6, 2025.

Investigators say the shooting grew out of the earlier dispute and have identified a person of interest, but no one has been arrested. Friends and family held a funeral service for Baker on February 22, 2025, at St. John Missionary Baptist Church in Kansas City as the investigation remains ongoing.

If anyone has information about what happened on Eastwood Trafficway that night, please share it with the investigators handling the case.