On the evening of November 13, 2018, Kansas City police officers were dispatched to a residence in the 4400 block of Garfield Avenue following reports of gunfire. Upon arriving at the scene around 6:00 p.m., authorities discovered 55-year-old Harvey E. Long outside a home suffering from gunshot wounds. The victim, a male who was just weeks away from his 56th birthday, was immediately transported to a local hospital for emergency treatment but was subsequently pronounced dead.
Detectives
processed the scene and launched a homicide investigation into the circumstances surrounding the shooting. At the time of the incident, law enforcement officials stated that no suspect information was immediately available to be released to the public. Investigators urged anyone with information regarding the violent event to contact the local TIPS Hotline to assist with the ongoing inquiry.
In the years following the fatal shooting, no major public announcements regarding arrests or charges specifically related to Harvey Long's death have been widely reported in accessible crime logs or media updates for the area. The case appears to have remained part of the city's roster of unsolved homicides from that year, with no individuals publicly identified as the perpetrator in available records.
