On the evening of September 12, 2024, officers in Kansas City, Missouri, responded to reports of a shooting at an apartment complex in the 6300 block of Manchester Avenue. They found 36-year-old Michael D. Porter, a Black man, unresponsive inside a residence with apparent gunshot wounds. Emergency responders were unable to detect signs of life and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said the shooting grew out of a verbal altercation between Porter and another adult male who then fled before officers arrived. Friends and family knew Porter by nicknames including MP and Porter Boi.

Anyone with information about the altercation or the person who left the scene is asked to come forward.