In the pre-dawn hours of December 21, 2025, 33-year-old Johntrel L. Vickers was found fatally shot in the street near the intersection of Admiral Boulevard and The Paseo in Kansas City, Missouri. First responders discovered Vickers unresponsive just before 4:30 a.m.; he had sustained apparent gunshot trauma to the face and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Surveillance footage showed Vickers walking when a dark blue Chevrolet Equinox pulled into a nearby parking lot. A person in a red hooded sweatshirt with distinctive yellow writing exited the SUV, approached Vickers, and after a brief interaction produced a firearm and shot him before fleeing in the vehicle. Investigators linked the SUV and forensic evidence, including ballistics and DNA from an earlier December shooting, to a suspect identified as Kur B. Bak.

On December 22 the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged Kur B. Bak, a 28-year-old Blue Springs resident, with multiple felonies, including two counts of first-degree murder—one count for Vickers—and several counts of armed criminal action and unlawful possession of a firearm. The motive for the killing remained under investigation. Does anyone have information about Vickers, his movements that night, or the dark blue Chevrolet Equinox seen at the scene?