On the evening of April 22, 2024, a burst of violence in the Dollar General parking lot on Leavenworth Road in Kansas City, Kansas, cost 22-year-old Gerald Jones II his life. Police found the Black/African American man with a gunshot wound about 7:30 p.m.; emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. The shooting was the sixth homicide in Kansas City, Kansas, for 2024.

Investigators quickly developed leads and identified a suspect. The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Apprehension Task Force located and arrested a 17-year-old male on the Missouri side of Kansas City. The teenager was charged by the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office with first-degree felony murder and aggravated robbery and is being held in the Jackson County Juvenile Detention Center pending extradition to Wyandotte County to face trial.

Does anyone have information about what happened at the Dollar General that night or knew Gerald Jones II?