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On the afternoon of October 2, 2021, a shooting in a residential area near 27th Street and Spruce Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, left three adults dead. Responding officers found 24-year-old Kanen Wheaton and two other young men—24-year-old Devon Key and 23-year-old Johnnai Owens—unresponsive from gunshot wounds; emergency crews pronounced all three deceased shortly after arriving. Wheaton, born October 7, 1996, in Kansas City, attended Ace and Hope Academy and the Kansas City Job Corps, played little league baseball and youth football, and was a father to a daughter.

Initial police information was limited; witnesses said a black Chevrolet Traverse arrived just before the shooting and occupants opened fire, then fled. Investigators later identified and charged two men, Joshua A. Bell, 21, and Lucas Baker, after surveillance footage, witness statements, and evidence tied a video and a distinctive forearm tattoo to Bell and placed Baker with vehicle keys; Baker reportedly admitted firing at the victims’ legs during questioning but initially denied shooting.

Who has information about Kanen Wheaton or what happened near 27th Street and Spruce Avenue that day?