In the late summer of 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri, the life of 19-year-old Terrence J. Barkley was tragically cut short. On the afternoon of Monday, August 30th, police responded to a shooting at the intersection of Swope Parkway and Woodland Avenue. There, they discovered Barkley inside a dark red Chevrolet Malibu, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was rushed to a local hospital in critical condition.
The following morning, August 31, 2010, Terrence Barkley succumbed to his injuries and was pronounced dead. Eyewitnesses at the scene of the shooting reported seeing the occupants of a white Lincoln Continental firing upon the vehicle Barkley was in near Swope Parkway and Cleveland Avenue. Despite these initial leads, no suspects were taken into custody in the immediate aftermath of the incident. The investigation into the shooting death of Terrence J. Barkley was launched, but information regarding any subsequent arrests or the identification of suspects has not been made publicly available in the years that have followed.