The new year in Kansas City, Kansas, turned violent on January 1, 2018. Just before 1:30 a.m. in the 2900 block of Oakland Avenue, 24-year-old Mike Arita-Hurtado was found shot to death after officers responded to a shooting call and discovered his body on the ground. The killing was the city’s first homicide of 2018.

In the immediate aftermath police had no information on a suspect or a motive, leaving family and neighbors without answers. For more than a year the case remained unresolved and painful for those who knew him. If anyone was in the Oakland Avenue area around 1:30 a.m. on January 1, 2018, or has information that could clarify what happened, please share what is known with authorities.