In the early morning hours of Friday, June 4, 2021, deputies with the Boone County Sheriff’s Department found 19-year-old Dennis Chester Darks, known as DC, suffering from gunshot wounds inside a vehicle in Columbia, Missouri. He was taken to Women and Children’s Hospital but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

A 2020 graduate of Battle High School, Darks was active in the community and known for advocacy and youth outreach, including work with the Boys and Girls Club and the Moving Ahead program. Friends remembered him as a ray of sunshine who also performed as a mascot at a local Chuckie Cheese. The Boone County Sheriff’s Department processed the scene and opened a homicide investigation, but no arrests or publicly named suspects have been reported and the case remains listed among unsolved homicides in Missouri.

Are there any witnesses or information about Dennis’s movements that night who haven’t spoken to investigators yet?