D La’Trice O’Hara, a 54-year-old Black woman from Kansas City, Missouri, was shot in her home on July 23, 2024, and died after being transported to a nearby hospital. A longtime funeral director who trained at the Gupton-Jones College of Funeral Service and later worked as a bus operator for the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority, she was active in her community as an organist and as Chaplain for the Divine Women of Adah #32 Order of the Eastern Star.

Officers responded about 9:30 p.m. to a report from the 500 block of Booth Avenue in the North Blue Ridge neighborhood that a woman had been shot inside and that a possible suspect might still be in the residence. Police made emergency entry and found O’Hara unresponsive; she was taken to hospital and pronounced dead.

The situation developed into a nearly nine-hour barricade known as an Operation 100. Tactical teams and homicide detectives maintained a perimeter through the night; officers cleared the home about 6:00 a.m. the next morning and took an adult male into custody as a person of interest. The investigation remains ongoing; anyone with information about what happened that night is asked to come forward.