A joint investigation is focused on a suspect Jeep, a two-mile route along Roe Avenue and the evidence left behind after a targeted shooting.
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Detectives in Overland Park and Prairie Village are piecing together a targeted shooting that moved north along Roe Avenue on Sunday night, left two women injured and ended with a fiery rollover crash beside Franklin Park.
What made the case stand out by Monday was not only the violence but the path it carved through two Johnson County cities. Police say the shooting began after a driver who had just picked up a female passenger in Kansas City, Missouri, realized another vehicle was following them. By the end of the chase, officers had evidence markers on multiple blocks of Roe, witness accounts from neighborhood homes and a suspect SUV that had not yet been found. That left investigators balancing two tasks at once: calming residents and building a detailed timeline from scattered pieces of evidence.
Authorities say the first emergency calls came in around 6:50 p.m. Sunday near the 9900 block of Roe Avenue in Overland Park. A second response followed at about 6:55 p.m. in Prairie Village, where gunshots and a crash were reported near Franklin Park. Police later said the female driver had picked up a female passenger in Kansas City, Missouri, before noticing they were being followed. As the driver tried to shake the other vehicle by turning onto Roe, the pursuing vehicle caught up and opened fire. The victims’ vehicle continued north, then crashed near the park, flipping over and catching fire. Officers arrived to find both women out of the vehicle and in need of medical care.
The route of the shooting has become one of the clearest facts in the case. Overland Park police said a large number of rounds were fired, with concentrations near 99th and Roe, 91st and Roe, and finally the Franklin Park area near 87th Street. That pattern suggests a sustained pursuit rather than a brief roadside encounter. Investigators have not said whether the victims were attempting to call 911 during the chase, whether the gunfire came from one shooter or more than one, or how close the vehicles came to other drivers and homes as they moved north. They have also not released details about damage to nearby property, though officers later asked residents to look for anything unusual, including damage, spent casings or camera footage that could help establish the sequence.
Residents waking up Monday could still see signs of the case. Local reporting described bright pink circles sprayed onto Roe where evidence had been documented, and a blackened patch of grass remained near the park entrance where the wrecked vehicle burned. Prairie Village residents told reporters they heard rapid gunfire, then saw a heavy police response spread across neighborhood streets. Matt Devereux, whose Ring camera captured the sounds of shots near his home, told KSHB the violence was “kind of shocking” because such scenes are rare there. Another resident, Barbara, who lives near 92nd Terrace and Roe, said she heard police tearing down Roe even though she did not hear the shots themselves. Those small, separate accounts have become part of a larger map investigators are now building.
Police have publicly identified the vehicle they want to find: a red or maroon 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee with Kansas plate 9103ACY. That detail gives the investigation a concrete target, but many core questions remain unanswered. Authorities have not said who owns the Jeep, whether it was stolen, whether investigators know the names of the suspects, or what led them to describe the shooting as targeted. They also have not released the names of the injured women. Officials have said the passenger suffered gunshot wounds and the driver suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the crash, and both were expected to survive. That left detectives free to focus on motive, identity and whether the people involved had prior contact before Sunday’s chase.
Public officials have tried to separate the danger of what happened from the immediate risk afterward. Capt. Josh Putthoff said Monday that suspects were still at large but there was no threat to the community at that time, a message reinforced by the reopening of Franklin Park. Mayor Eric Mikkelson called the incident disturbing, reflecting the unease caused by gunfire in a residential corridor and at a city park. Even so, the park’s reopening underscored that police believed the shooting was tied to specific people rather than an active random threat. That distinction matters in Prairie Village, where the crash site sits in a highly visible public space and where residents quickly began comparing Sunday night’s violence with the area’s normally quiet routine.
The next steps are likely to be painstaking rather than dramatic. Detectives from Overland Park and Prairie Village are expected to continue collecting surveillance video from homes and businesses, matching shell casings to likely firing points and tracing the movement of both vehicles from Kansas City, Missouri, into Johnson County. If the Jeep is found, investigators will likely look for ballistic evidence, fingerprints, DNA and digital clues that could show who was inside and where it traveled before and after the shooting. As of Monday, no arrest had been announced and no criminal charges were public. The next clear turning point will come when police either recover the SUV or identify suspects strongly enough to name them.
For now, the story remains fixed in the contrast between ordinary surroundings and sudden violence: a neighborhood road, a city park, evening traffic and then a chain of gunfire that crossed city lines in minutes. By late Monday, the roads were reopening and the park was back in use, but the investigation was still following the same path the bullets did — block by block up Roe.
Author note: Last updated March 24, 2026.