Video cameras captured the shootout at the 42nd and Prospect car wash that ended in the killing of Jose Jenkins.
Jenkins, 37, became Kansas City's 84th homicide victim Sunday night. Authorities believe they've found his killer: Jackson 
County prosecutors charged 34-year-old Timothy McClendon with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in Jenkins' death.
According to court records, the video shows Jenkins initiating the shootout, firing shots at McClendon, who took off running and returned fire and hit Jenkins.
But the gun battle didn't end there. A wounded Jenkins couldn't get to his feet. McClendon allegedly walked to his tan Subaru, reloaded his gun and fired multiple shots at Jenkins. McClendon is then accused of getting in his vehicle, driving up to Jenkins' body and firing more shots.
And it wasn't over yet. McClendon then allegedly backs up the car and fires even more shots before finally driving off.
Jenkins' autopsy revealed that he was shot about 22 times in the back of his head, neck and torso.
In 2004, he was charged with killing two women during a crime spree that included a carjacking and a domestic assault. The victims were in a car that McClendon allegedly fired at randomly, according to news accounts.
But Jackson County prosecutors dismissed the charges in 2008 after two key eyewitnesses could not be found to testify at trial.
While he was being held on the murder charges, McClendon was linked by DNA testing to a sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in 1998. He pleaded guilty to the sexual assault in 2009 and was sentenced to three years in prison.
That same year, he was sentenced to 22 months in federal custody after violating conditions of his previous release on an unlawful firearms conviction, according to federal court records.
It was unclear from the records when McClendon was released from prison.
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