On the evening of April 19, 2026, 17-year-old Demetrius Smith was fatally wounded in a shooting near East 110th Terrace and Greenwood Road in Kansas City, Missouri. After gunfire, people at the scene drove him by private vehicle to a nearby fire station; EMS then transported him to a hospital where he died.

Demetrius’s death was one of three separate homicides in the city that night, two of them involving teenagers. The Kansas City Police Department opened a homicide investigation into his killing. As of initial reports, no suspects had been taken into custody and the circumstances leading up to the shooting remained unclear.

If anyone was in the area that evening or has information about what happened near East 110th Terrace and Greenwood Road, please share what you know.