Sharriff Tilghman was 49 when he was found fatally shot inside a car that had crashed into a snowbank in the Blue Valley industrial area of Kansas City, Missouri. Officers responded around 9:30 p.m. on February 2, 2022, after a report of a shooting; paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. The vehicle’s engine was running and the car had been reported stolen earlier that day by the victim’s girlfriend, the registered owner.

Investigators recovered nine bullet casings and noted several bullet holes that appeared to have come from outside the car. Surveillance footage showed the car arriving about an hour before the shooting and a person getting out of the passenger side, standing near where casings were later found, then fleeing and jumping a fence. Gas station video captured a passenger attempting to buy tobacco.

A face mask from the passenger floorboard produced a lab report indicating the likely presence of Isaiah Thomas’s DNA; police traced a 9mm alleged murder weapon to someone living at Thomas’s residence.

Did anyone in the Blue Valley area see activity around East 17th Street that evening or recognize the person seen on surveillance?