Shortly after midnight on November 28, 2023, officers responded to gunfire at an apartment complex in the 1930 block of Park Tower Road in Kansas City, Missouri, and found 45-year-old Calvin L. Boyles inside a residence with fatal gunshot wounds. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene. Investigators recovered evidence that gunfire had been directed at the building from outside, including about 23 spent shell casings on a hill behind the complex, and bullets had penetrated the walls of Boyles’s apartment.

Detectives determined Boyles was not the intended target; the shooting grew out of a months-long feud between the shooter and a woman who lived in the same building. Authorities identified 29-year-old Kequan O. Herring as the suspect, linked his vehicle to similar prior shots-fired incidents, and arrested him on multiple charges including second-degree murder, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, and firing a gun into a building. Boyles was a deacon at Maranatha Family Worship Center and worked as an independent carpenter; he is survived by his wife and several children.

If anyone knew Boyles or has information about the events that night, please come forward to share what you know.