KANSAS CITY —A Missouri inmate has been charged in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred at an apartment complex in 2019 in Kansas City, Missouri.
Demetrius S. Hill , 27, faces one count of 2nd Degree Murder, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson.
According to court records, Kansas City police responded to a shooting at an apartment complex parking lot on August 9, 2019, and located the victim in the driver’s seat of a gray Dodge Durango suffering from apparent trauma. He was declared deceased at the scene.
Surveillance video captured a suspect wearing a red shirt over his head arriving at the parking lot in a gray Ford Escape. The victim then arrived in a Dodge Durango with the defendant in the front passenger seat. The suspect with the red shirt approached the victim’s vehicle and engaged in a brief conversation. As he walked away, he turned back and fired shots at the vehicle. The defendant then exited the Durango and fled with the suspect in the red shirt in the Ford Escape.
Detectives identified both suspects based on witness reports and anonymous tips to the Crime Stoppers TIPS hotline.
Investigators believe the defendant fired at the victim while inside the Durango. The defendant’s DNA matched a cigarillo collected from inside the victim’s vehicle.
The suspect with the red shirt was killed in a homicide in 2023.
Hill is currently in custody of the Missouri Department of Corrections for convictions that include unlawful use of a weapon, resisting arrest, tampering with a witness and tampering with a vehicle, according to online records.