OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — With a motive to Monday’s deadly shooting outside an Overland Park office center still unknown, a family member of victim David Flick said Wednesday he hoped answers could come soon.
“It was total shock,” Steve Flick, David's brother, told 41 Action News on Wednesday. “It was just unbelievable. I had just gotten into my office and we got a call.”
The shooting that killed Steve’s brother took place after David pulled into the parking lot of a business center along West 135th Street in Overland Park.
According to Steve, David had just dropped off his 11-year-old and 6-year-old sons at school.
“The next thing I know I had a call from his manager and they said he had been killed at that office,” he said. “It’s just been a spiral getting through it day by day.”
Aside from being the founder of Terra Technologies, David Flick cherished his time taking care of his sons, according to his brother.
“He was a wonderful and great father,” Steve said. “He was very much a pillar of the business community and had a big heart.”
Hours after the crime, a second person who was driving a vehicle police had connected to the shooting later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in the Northland as law enforcement approached the vehicle.
The man who died in the Northland incident was later identified as 60-year-old Scott MacDonald.
On Wednesday, 41 Action News uncovered details of a criminal case in Jefferson County that MacDonald was sentenced for back in 1986.
According to details from a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article at the time, MacDonald was accused of stabbing his mother seven times in the neck with a screwdriver before later beating her with a shovel and wrench.
The report also described how MacDonald put his mother into a car after the incident and drove it off a highway to make the ordeal appear as an accident, according to police, before later lighting the car on fire.
The crime eventually led to MacDonald receiving a 21-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to first-degree assault in Jefferson County.
Despite the gruesome details of the case and the possibility of spending life in prison, the paper reported that prosecutors settled the case due to difficulties of getting testimony from the mother.
Following the shooting on Monday, the Overland Park Police Department told 41 Action News it was investigating the crime’s connection to a child custody battle between Flick and a woman with whom he had a child.
Police said on Wednesday that the woman had discussed the case with them. She was never considered a suspect in the case and no charges have been filed at this time.
As of Wednesday afternoon, a motive for the shooting still remained unknown.
