On March 28, 2021, police in Saint Joseph, Missouri, responded around 4:20 a.m. to the 1800 block of North Second Street after a concerned citizen called. Officers found a male victim with a fatal gunshot wound. He was identified as 38-year-old Jeffrey Lee Grippando, a White male who lived locally and who left behind his parents, three sons, and a grandson. He was pronounced dead at the scene from a single gunshot wound.

Investigators treated the shooting as not random and quickly developed a person of interest. By that evening, 26-year-old Devin Ray Sollars was taken into custody and later charged with second-degree murder; bond was denied and he remained in the Buchanan County Jail. The case was being handled in the Buchanan County court system.

If anyone in Saint Joseph has information about what happened that night or knew Jeffrey, please share tips with the authorities handling the case.