Inset: Ramel Morgan (Jackson County Sheriff’s Office). Background: News footage shows the gas station where the shooting occurred (KCTV).
A Missouri man seen on surveillance video carrying a gun inside a gas station shortly before a deadly shooting has been sentenced to prison.
Ramel Morgan, 20, pleaded guilty July 9 to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a victim whose name has not been released. Morgan admitted he fired the deadly shots on Dec. 7, 2025, at a Kansas City gas station, where security cameras recorded the events before and during the shooting. According to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime, Morgan surrendered to police several weeks later.
Authorities have not publicly identified the victim, but investigators said he may have been involved in a romantic dispute with Morgan over a woman both men were reportedly seeing.
Police were called to the gas station at about 11:45 p.m. on Dec. 7, 2025, after reports of gunfire, according to the complaint. When officers arrived, neither the victim nor the shooter was still at the scene. Investigators later learned the victim had driven himself to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A witness told police the suspect, later identified as Morgan, fired multiple rounds into the victim’s silver Mustang before running from the area. Officers recovered a 9mm Winchester shell casing at the gas station. At the hospital, police located the victim’s Mustang and found a Glock 22 .40-caliber handgun inside the vehicle.
Investigators then reviewed surveillance footage from the gas station. The video showed Morgan’s gray Hyundai Sonata arriving at the pumps, according to the complaint. Three unidentified people got out and entered the store, followed by Morgan, who exited from the driver’s side and went inside while appearing to carry “an object resembling a handgun.” Morgan was seen moving in and out of the store before the victim’s Mustang pulled into a parking spot.
The complaint says Morgan walked to the passenger side of the Mustang and spoke briefly with the driver, identified as the victim. Moments later, Morgan opened fire, shooting into the vehicle several times before fleeing on foot.
The three unnamed individuals ran out of the store and got into a black Jeep, which then drove away from the gas station. Police found Morgan’s Sonata in the parking lot.
Police tracked down the driver of the Jeep and other witnesses who were at the gas station during the shooting. One of them had recorded the incident on their phone, which captured a male voice saying, “Come here before I kill this [expletive],” followed by a female voice saying, “You do what you have to do.”
Police said a witness who was at the scene told officers that Morgan asked the victim if he was there to see an unnamed woman. The same woman was identified by a witness as being “involved romantically” with both Morgan and the victim, “which [the witness] believed led to the shooting.”
Several witnesses identified Morgan in a photo lineup. One witness told police that Morgan confessed to shooting the victim after seeing him with a gun.
Morgan was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
