On June 21, 2025, 45-year-old Terrance Marshall Bell was shot inside a home in the 4200 block of East Linwood Avenue in the Knoches Park neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. Police were called around 10:20 a.m.; Bell was found in the kitchen with gunshot wounds to his back, taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and later died. He was born January 7, 1980, worked as a mechanic at Mike’s Auto Repair and graduated from Center High School. Family remembered him for grilling, making music, fishing, attending Chiefs games and helping others.

A witness who was with Bell said they heard a knock at the back door, a commotion, and a man identified as De’Onte Thompson saying don’t move, then three gunshots. The witness saw Bell try to close the back door before the suspect fled. Investigators recovered two spent 9 mm shell casings near the back door, and the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged De’Onte Thompson with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Thompson is in custody without bond pending his initial court appearance.

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