On March 20, 2021, 31-year-old Byren Dennie was shot and killed in the Ivanhoe Southwest neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, after a gathering at his home in the 4400 block of Woodland Avenue. Dennie had invited a group inside following a nightclub, and a gambling session led to rising tensions and a physical altercation outside. Witnesses saw Dennie fighting with another man in the street before shots were fired. Officers found him in the grass of a nearby vacant lot around 6:00 a.m.; he was taken to hospital and later died.

Investigators recovered several spent shell casings and a distinctively colorful left shoe at the scene. Authorities identified 21-year-old Zyan J. Teague, a University of Missouri-Kansas City student known as College Boy, as a suspect after witnesses said he argued with Dennie and left in a silver sedan registered to him. Searches of Teague’s dorm room and vehicle reportedly produced a matching right shoe, a gun holster, an empty gun box, and ammunition tied to the scene. In May 2021, a grand jury indicted Teague on second-degree murder and armed criminal action.