On the evening of Christmas Eve 2021, 85-year-old Patricia Ann Panijan was shot and killed inside her home in the 2900 block of North 73rd Place, Kansas City, Kansas. She and her husband Joseph were watching television in their front room when more than a dozen rounds struck the front of the house; Patricia died at the scene and her husband was wounded.

The shooting has been described as violent and seemingly random, and it deeply affected the neighborhood and the local Croatian community where the Panijans were known. Family and friends held a candlelight vigil, and the family established The Patricia Panijan Crime Prevention Fund.

As of early 2022 no suspects had been publicly identified or arrested. Investigators asked the public to help locate a silver four-door sedan, possibly a 2011–2014 Volkswagen Passat or Jetta without a sunroof, said to be a vehicle of interest.

If anyone has information about that vehicle or the shooting, please come forward.