Charges follows the final hours around a parked SUV, a basement studio session and the witness accounts that came after the gunfire.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The public record in a south Kansas City homicide points to a compressed stretch of overnight events: a couple arrived at a house with a basement recording studio, an argument unfolded outside near their SUV, and three shots rang out before police found Katrice Williams dead.
By the time prosecutors charged Demario McGee, 37, with second-degree murder and related weapons counts, the broad outline of the night had come into focus. Investigators say Williams, 32, stayed in a gold Chevrolet Traverse while McGee went inside to record music, then came in and out of the house trying to persuade her to spend the night indoors. What happened next matters because the case now rests on that timeline, witness recollections from inside the house and McGee’s own account to detectives after his arrest.
McGee told police he and Williams had been homeless and sleeping in the Traverse, a detail that places the vehicle at the center of the night instead of at its edge. According to the probable cause statement, he repeatedly left the recording session to check on Williams outside. He wanted her to come in, he told detectives, so they might be able to stay at the house. She remained in the vehicle as the hour grew later. That rhythm of inside and outside movement became the backdrop for the confrontation. Eventually, police said, the couple began arguing. McGee later told detectives he felt emasculated by the way Williams was speaking to him. The filing says she then told him she was going to leave.
Witnesses did not describe seeing the fatal moment directly, but they told police they heard the argument and then the shots. One woman said she heard a male and female arguing followed by gunfire. A man said he also heard arguing and shots, then looked out a sliding door and saw a male in a light-colored hoodie running toward the back of the property. Another portion of the case record says witnesses heard three sounds of shots while they were in the basement. When they went toward the backyard, they saw McGee walk away toward the south end of the property, disappear briefly and later return. The witnesses’ descriptions matter because they sketch movement after the shooting and because prosecutors appear to be using them to test McGee’s claim that the gun discharged as he raised it into the air.
Police arrived just after 3 a.m. Sunday at the residence on East 62nd Street. Officers were directed to the backyard, where Williams was found on the ground outside the SUV with gunshot wounds to her neck. Paramedics declared her dead at 3:18 a.m. The same records say McGee was still there when officers arrived, though his demeanor changed in witness accounts. At first, witnesses said, he seemed calm. Later, they told police, he became erratic and yelled about how someone had shot his girlfriend. That shift is one of the sharper details in the file because it gave investigators a behavior pattern to weigh against the physical scene, the wound location and McGee’s later statement that he fled on foot and threw the gun two or three houses east of the residence.
The criminal case moved quickly after the shooting. Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson announced charges on March 23, one day after the killing. McGee faces one count of second-degree murder, two counts of armed criminal action and one count of unlawful use of a weapon tied to exhibiting a 9 mm firearm in an angry or threatening manner. A judge set his bond at $250,000 cash only. The released filings do not yet show whether the firearm has been recovered, whether ballistic testing has been completed or when the next detailed court hearing will be held. Prosecutors also have not publicly outlined whether they expect additional forensic evidence, cellphone data or neighborhood video to narrow the exact sequence between the first shot and Williams’ collapse beside the Traverse.
Read as a chronology, the case turns on ordinary motions that ended in irreversible violence: arriving at a house to record music, staying in a vehicle through the night, stepping back and forth between a basement studio and a yard, arguing over where to sleep, hearing shots, running, returning and waiting for sirens. The legal accusations came later, but the story itself is rooted in those repeated crossings between indoors and outdoors. Williams never made it into the house, and by sunrise the scene had shifted from a private dispute to a homicide investigation with witnesses trying to piece together sounds, glimpses and timing in a backyard off East 62nd Street.
As of April 15, 2026, the overnight timeline remains the spine of the prosecution’s case, with McGee jailed on cash bond and the next major step expected to come in court as investigators refine the sequence of events.
Author note: Last updated April 15, 2026.