A late-night shooting in the 18th and Vine Jazz District of Kansas City turned deadly after the Juneteenth Heritage Festival. In the early morning hours of June 22, 2025, shortly after 2:00 a.m., crowds at the intersection of 19th Street and Vine Street panicked and fled as people began screaming that someone was armed and firing. Officers already on patrol found 26-year-old Ty’rick D. Henry unresponsive with fatal gunshot wounds; emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.

Five other people were wounded and taken to hospitals by private vehicles. One of those wounded, 24-year-old Jalin X. Brewer, later died from injuries, raising the incident’s death toll to two. Investigators say the shooting grew out of an escalating disagreement among a large group that spiraled out of control.

Police arrested Leonard L. Holman at the scene after observing him allegedly retrieve a firearm from his waistband and fire it into the air multiple times; he was charged with unlawful discharge of a firearm under Blair’s Law and resisting arrest. Holman told detectives he fired into the air to protect himself during the melee. Is there anyone who was at the festival or nearby that night who can shed light on what sparked the confrontation?