On the morning of September 14, 2025, Gande A. Salamed, 49, arrived to open El Mercado Fresco in the Hickman Mills neighborhood of Kansas City and was shot in the store parking lot just after 7 a.m. Officers and paramedics attempted to render aid, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Salamed was a co-owner of the market, a husband, father, and grandfather, known for sitting to the right of the entrance while monitoring cameras and greeting customers. Raised in Puerto Rico, he spoke Spanish and was a familiar presence in the South Kansas City community.

A second victim, 17-year-old Delvyon Q. Carmichael, was found on the north side of the parking lot with life-threatening injuries, transported to a hospital, and pronounced dead shortly before 9 a.m. The Kansas City Police Department is treating both deaths as homicides; no arrests or public suspect identifications have been announced. Investigators have been canvassing for witnesses and surveillance footage.

Did anyone in the area see activity in the 6800 block of Longview Road that morning or have footage from nearby cameras?