On the afternoon of October 3, 2016, four or five gunshots were fired at the Royal Ridge Apartments near 73rd and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. Twenty-five-year-old Markie T. Murray, a Black/African American man, came out of one of the apartments gravely wounded after being shot in the chest or stomach. Emergency responders arrived about 2:40 p.m., but Murray did not survive. His death was recorded as the city’s 32nd homicide that year.

The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department opened a homicide investigation. Neighbors heard the shots and many witnessed parts of the incident; investigators said the community’s willingness to report what they saw and heard helped the early inquiry. No arrests or suspect descriptions were released in the days afterward, and police asked anyone with information to call the TIPS hotline.

Murray, a 2009 graduate of Schlagle High School, was remembered as a loving son and a devoted father to his young son. If anyone has information about what happened that afternoon, please come forward to the authorities.