Man shot, killed outside Overland Park bar

Jurl L. Carter lived for his children and his music.

The 24-year-old rapper and musician from Olathe, shot to death early Wednesday outside of an Overland Park bar, had two children and was expecting a third.

“That was his life,” said Carter’s uncle, Michael Fuel. “His family. His kids. His music.”

Someone killed Carter about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday outside Jim Kilroy’s Roxy Bar in the 7100 block of West 75th Street.

The shooting broke out after a group of men started to fight outside the club, said Jim Kilroy, who owns The Roxy.

Carter got into a car parked in front of the club and started to back away, Kilroy said. Other men ran after the car.

Kilroy lost sight of the car as it went behind the bar’s Dumpster.

“I heard a ‘pop, pop pop,’ ” Kilroy said. “It seemed very surreal.”

Carter performed under the names Yunglyfe Carter and Boogy.

Fuel said Wednesday afternoon that he had not heard any details about the altercation, but he said his nephew was trying to leave the bar parking lot to go home.

“He is a family man,” Fuel said. “He was trying to do the right thing and walk away when a coward shot him.”

The bar was holding a ladies’ night and had disc jockeys playing hip-hop dance music. There was a good-sized crowd inside, Kilroy said. It was close to the time for the music to end.

“We didn’t have anything happen in the club,” Kilroy said. “It all took place outside. I don’t know what sparked it. It didn’t seem like anything was that out of control and then all of sudden there was gunfire.”

At first, Kilroy questioned whether a shooting actually had happened. He then had the disc jockeys cut the music. People started to leave as police arrived.

Police officers got to scene quickly, but as they arrived, a large number of people were leaving the area.

“We believe quite a few people may have seen it,” said Officer Gary Mason, Overland Park police spokesman.

Police said they were looking to question a man in his 20s who left in a large red truck. A complete description of the man was not available.

Police are asking anyone who was there or has information to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477 or Overland Park police at 913-344-8706.

Kilroy said the bar has had few issues since he bought it in March 2014.

“It’s upsetting,” Kilroy said. “We do a number of these hip-hop kind of things, and I know it has a bad rap, but people have been very well behaved. Everybody has been respectful.”

The ladies’ night promotion has become very popular, even drawing bigger crowds lately than the club’s Friday and Saturday nights, he said.

“It’s really terrible to see this happen,” he said. “I’m not really sure what to do. I imagine we will suspend the Tuesday thing at least for a little while just to kind of see what’s going to happen.

“But we haven’t had any problems, so it’s hard to shut everything down when we haven’t been having any issues … I don’t feel that this is representative of the kind of atmosphere we have at the Roxy.”

This story was originally published September 16, 2015 at 7:12 AM with the headline "Man shot, killed outside Overland Park bar."