Erick Reynaldo Rangel-Mendoza, 22, was shot while seated in his parked car in the Family Dollar parking lot on the 1200 block of Central Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, on the night of February 21, 2020. At least a dozen shots were reported fired from the direction of Central Avenue toward his vehicle. First responders found Rangel-Mendoza with life-threatening injuries; he was taken to a nearby hospital, underwent emergency surgery, and later died of his wounds.

The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department publicly identified him as the victim about a week after the shooting. His death was recorded as the city’s fifth homicide that year. Police opened an investigation and asked the public for information; initial reports gave no suspect names or motive and no arrests or identifications of suspects have been announced.

If anyone has information about what happened that night, please contact the authorities’ tip line.