Terrence E. Richardson, a 47-year-old Black man, was working as a taxi driver in Kansas City, Missouri when he was killed on Saturday, May 12, 2012. He had been dispatched that evening to pick up a passenger at 4445 Spruce Avenue and was sitting in his taxi when an unknown Black male opened fire on the vehicle, fatally wounding Richardson. The motive is not known.

The Kansas City Missouri Police Department opened a homicide investigation under case number 12-32572. No arrests have been announced and no publicly identified suspects have been named beyond the initial description of a Black male, and the case is listed among the city’s unsolved homicides.

If anyone was in the Spruce Avenue area that night or has information about the shooting, please come forward and share what is known.