On the evening of July 22, 2023, emergency responders in Raytown, Missouri, went to what was initially reported as a two-vehicle crash at 67th Street and Blue Ridge Boulevard. Officers found 31-year-old Jeremiah Plowden of Kansas City inside one of the vehicles with fatal gunshot wounds. Witnesses in the area reported hearing multiple shots, including one account of eight or nine shots near a bank and a car speeding through a traffic light shortly afterward. Plowden was pronounced dead at the scene and the Raytown Police Department opened a homicide investigation.

As of late 2024 the investigation remained active with no arrests or publicly identified suspects. Plowden was a husband and father of two who worked in social services and had a passion for helping young people. If anyone saw or heard anything near 67th Street and Blue Ridge Boulevard on the night of July 22, 2023, please come forward with information.