In the early morning hours of Sunday, November 4, 2012, the body of 32-year-old Michael C. Simpson was discovered in the backyard of a vacant house in the 3000 block of Flora Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. He had been shot multiple times.
The evening before, around 8 p.m., neighbors in the area reported hearing the sound of gunshots, but no one looked outside to see what had happened. It wasn't until approximately 7:50 a.m. the next morning that Simpson's body was found and police were called to the scene.
Investigators learned that Simpson was a resident of Kansas City, but his family was at a loss as to why he would have been in that particular neighborhood. The circumstances surrounding his presence on Flora Avenue that night remain unclear.
Despite the initial investigation by the Kansas City Police Department, there have been no publicly available reports of any arrests made or suspects identified in the years following the shooting. The death of Michael C. Simpson remains an unsolved homicide, leaving his family and community without answers or a sense of justice for his untimely death.
