Alvin L. Neal, 47, was fatally shot on May 11, 2024, at an apartment complex in the 2600 block of East 29th Street in the Santa Fe neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. Officers responding to reports of shots about 9:00 a.m. were directed by witnesses to an apartment unit where Neal was found unresponsive with apparent gunshot trauma and later pronounced dead at the scene. The city’s police listed this as Kansas City’s 50th homicide of the year.

Police described the shooting as likely the result of an interpersonal dispute and said the people involved appeared to know one another. Neal, born October 26, 1976, was a lifelong Kansas City resident, attended Northeast High School and KC Vocational Technical School, and is survived by his daughter Destinee and brother Henry. A funeral was arranged through Serenity Funeral Home.

If anyone has information about the shooting or knew Alvin Neal, please share what you know with investigators.