Sixteen-year-old Jayson Ugwuh Jr. was fatally shot on the evening of January 10, 2021, inside a home in the 5600 block of Paloma Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. He was found with gunshot wounds and later died at a nearby hospital. Jayson was born March 15, 2004, and attended Raytown High School; he played basketball for the Hogan Rams and the Showme State Warriors and hoped to become a barber.

The Ugwuh family had already suffered a prior loss when Jayson’s nine-year-old brother, Jayden Ugwuh, was killed in a 2016 shooting. Days after Jayson’s death, investigators linked his 21-year-old sister, Tityana Coppage, to a separate fatal shooting on January 13, 2021; she was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action after authorities said she believed the victim, 36-year-old Keith Lars, had been involved in Jayson’s killing. Coppage told police she acted in self-defense; investigators cited witness statements, surveillance footage, and text messages that suggested a retaliatory motive.

No other suspects in Jayson's killing have been publicly named. Did anyone in the area see or hear anything on January 10 that could help explain what happened to Jayson?