Yolanda M. Walker was identified as the victim of Sunday night's homicide.
Walker, 38, was found shot to death inside a Dodge minivan in the 6600 block of South Benton around 10 p.m.
Kansas City police say they are still looking for suspects.
Friends have started to leave tributes on Walker's Facebook page on which Walker lists two children and her hometown as Wichita, Kansas.
Walker writes that she attended West High School, class of 1989. There's even a clipping and photo from the Wichita Eagle of Walker playing basketball for West in Class 6A girls' sub-state.
There are also photos of her preteen son in his football uniform and her daughter wearing a top hat and gown at graduation and a tribute to a young man who died young.
Last Friday, Walker wrote a blog on MySpace titled "I still LOVE YOU!"
I still love you baby, 6yrs was a long time, but we came to a point where we did not want to fight no more for it. I see you have moved on and I wish YOU all the happiness......I will try not to ever forget what we shared, our kids, losing our son, and mother, and most of all losing one another.... this is from the heart, I still LOVE YOU....
If you have a tip about Walker's death, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
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-its funny how everybody THINK they know something and dnt know shidd .... yall dont know who she loved ! so quit running ya mouths
I was sitting here this evening thinking and missing a friend that I was close to and worked with. So I decided to log onto my computer and google her name to see what the updates were saying regarding the woman that chose to take her life. So I decided to read the comments that other people were saying. Some of them were really nice and others were just what they are comments.
The only issue that I had was I seen quite a few times, where some were saying the love of her life. No disrespect to the woman she spent the last 5 or 6 years with because you gotta have some type of love for a person you spent that much time with but the reality is this: She had love for her but the real person she was in-love with and adored and wanted to spend her life with was a lady named Lisa who I had the pleasure of meeting 1 time at a work function. They had a very special relationship and Yolanda didnt go a day without speaking of this lady and how much she loved her and wanted to be with her. So much talk of her that even I said damn I wish someone loved me like that. I remember telling Yolanda to do whatever it takes to be with her. If we had to hear about it everyday at work I know the people she was closest to heard it everyday just the same. Ms. Lisa your name was never mentioned anywhere and if you ever read this my sympathy is with you sweetheart and time heals everything. Just take it one day at a time because I know I know she was in-love with you and just you and she would have loved to be with you. Hold on to the memories you and Yolanda shared. No one can take that away.
Yolanda you are so missed. I so wish this was just a dream and all of us that love you would just wake up and you were still here with us. Love you forever.
Well Sister it has been a little over a month and I still find myself calling your cell and your work number just to hear your voice. Sometimes I wonder if the pain and the hurt will ever go away, but then I remember your last email to me "Pray for peace in your heart and peace in your mind" So whenever I start hurting and feeling like I can't handle it I remember those words you said to me. You were one of the most spiritually connected people I ever knew and whenever you said the spirit is telling you something you were always right. I miss you so much, the kids miss you everyone misses you so much. I am going to do my best to be there for your kids because that is what you would have wanted me to do.
Love you and I will see you again! RIP Sister
man this was my fav aunt and my moms bestie so its kinda fucked up she died over some bs november aint never gone b right for us since BOOC bitches keep wantin to get tough but im gone miss her most of all wen she used come and watch the chiefs play knowin they was gone lose but she was always behind them man i miss u aunt and aint nobody gone look after my moms like u did
R I P 2 all the fallen soldiers we lost from 08' to 09' we miss ull n gone c ull soon
Someone - you could have kept your comments to yourself. It doesn't matter what anybody knows or doesnt know the one thing we all know is she is gone and Blanche is responsible.
RIP - Baby Sis! Love ya forever and I miss you so much.
first of all dont nobody know wat was goin on wit them but them and god. so everyone need to keep da comments to their self. i am sorry she had to go like that but like everyone else im on da outside lookin in. i dont even know wat was goin on wit them and dat was my big sis dat did dat. i hate dat my sister did dat but time heals all wounds. may god be wit all of u.
i didnt know her personally however i know someone who did. i am sad to hear that this person has lost their life because someone else didnt know how to move on with their. i know that we all can say how sorry we are to the family but after all is said and done the family will have to live with this lost for many years.it's ok to love someone but when that love has ended we must go on and seek love else where it is not right for anyone to take another person life for any reason. we all must listen to the warning signs we all get before desctruction hit! if you know of someone you love who is in a domestic abuse relationship dont stop trying to get them help. and i hope that the person that did it feel the pain she has cause this family as long as she is alive in prison.to the person that killed her you didnt have to kill her!! and i hope they throw you away in jail and throw away the keys and let you just rot away. what you do to others will come back to you.I am truly sorry for this family lost. this woman was taken from her family to soon.
God will make all things right.
lenee from Minneapolis, MN.
I KNOW EXACTLY WHO THAT LETTER WAS WROTE TO. SHAWNNA HER REAL LOVER. I DONT KNOW WHAT THAT THING WAS WALKIN AROUND WIT HER AFTER THEY BROKE UP. I GUESS SHE REALIZED IT WAS A MISTAKE AND WANTED TO MAKE IT RIGHT AND THE UGLY CRAZY WOMAN KNEW HOW GOOD HER FAMILY LOOKED AND DIDNT WANNA BE JEALOUS ANYMORE SO SHE SHOT HER.... THATS FUCKED UP. I KNEW HER AND I ACTUALLY GOT TO CHILL WITH HER AND SHE WAS A NICE PERSON TO KNOW AND HAVE MET. MY CONDOLENSES TO THE FAMILY AND AND SHAWNNA AND HER FAMILY AND R.I.P LIL MICHEAL GANT FROM RELATIVES ACROSS THE STREET
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