On the night of November 21, 2023, a shooting at a home near East 70th Street and South Benton Avenue in Kansas City left 61-year-old Gerald Warren dead and a woman critically wounded. Officers arrived about 11:30 p.m. after reports of gunfire; the woman was found outside with multiple gunshot wounds to her abdomen and was able to direct officers to the nearby house where Warren was found fatally shot in the entryway. The front of the house showed broken glass and bullet strikes.

The injured woman identified her then-boyfriend, Wayne A. Hunt, as the shooter and said she had been in Warren’s home when the window was shattered and Hunt demanded she come out. Warren reportedly went to the front door armed with a pistol and was struck, as was the woman. Doorbell camera footage from a neighbor captured an SUV matching Hunt’s vehicle near the scene before and after the shooting, and Hunt later arrived at a hospital emergency room claiming he had been shot.

The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged Wayne A. Hunt on November 29, 2023 with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, and two counts of armed criminal action. Did anyone in the area see the SUV or notice activity near Warren’s home that night?