On April 4, 2023, police in Kansas City, Missouri, responded to a disturbance and reports of gunfire at the Days Inn & Suites on Hillcrest Road and found 36-year-old Carl L. Stewart dead in room 102 from multiple gunshot wounds. A witness who had checked in the previous evening said he saw Stewart and 28-year-old Makail Rogers struggling inside the room shortly before hearing shots.The investigation shows surveillance footage of Rogers falling from the hotel room window, then firing into Stewart’s vehicle and searching it, before trying repeatedly and unsuccessfully to re-enter the room.

Officers encountered Rogers as he fled through a side door; an exchange of gunfire with police followed but no one was injured in that shootout. Officers recovered a .40 caliber handgun beneath Rogers.During an interview Rogers said he rented the room, claimed he woke to Stewart sexually assaulting him at gunpoint, and said Stewart had fired at him first. Rogers was charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action.

Does anyone have information about Stewart’s movements that night or about anyone who saw the two men at the hotel?