La-Toya Seamster-Lawagbon, 42, was found dead at her Kansas City, Kansas, home on May 7, 2024. Authorities say she suffered fatal gunshot wounds; her body was discovered in the 1900 block of North Hallock Street after a man identified as 33-year-old Jessie Wayne Buchanan entered the University of Kansas Hospital emergency room, confessed to killing someone, and fired a shot into the ceiling of the security entrance. Buchanan was taken into custody at the hospital, and officers who went to Seamster-Lawagbon’s residence found additional signs of violence: a dog had been killed and the windows of a Buick Century at the scene were shattered. This was reported as the tenth homicide in Kansas City, Kansas, for the year.

Buchanan was charged with second-degree murder, criminal discharge of a firearm, animal cruelty, and two counts of criminal damage to property, and held in the Wyandotte County Jail on a $250,000 cash-only bond. Seamster-Lawagbon was a mother of two sons and is remembered by family as an amazing woman, sister, and daughter. Her violent death has deeply affected her family and the local community.

If anyone has information about La-Toya Seamster-Lawagbon’s death or the events of May 7, please come forward and share what you know.