Sixteen-year-old Victor Ricardo Jimenez Diaz was fatally shot in broad daylight on Monday, April 10, 2023, in the 6800 block of Bellefontaine Avenue in south Kansas City. The shooting occurred about 3:30 p.m.; neighbors who gathered at the scene believed the victim was a teenage boy who lived in the area. Kansas City Police and EMS responded, and Victor was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining a gunshot wound.

Police opened a homicide investigation and deployed tactical officers with assault rifles and armored vehicles to the block. Officers used a bullhorn to try to make contact at a nearby residence while they worked to obtain a search warrant.

Does anyone who lived near Bellefontaine Avenue that afternoon have information about what they saw or heard?