On the night of August 10, 2020, officers from the Raytown Police Department responded to reports of gunfire in the 8400 block of Lane Drive, a residential area outside Kansas City, Missouri. They found a 2018 Chevy Equinox with its doors ajar and 19-year-old Lucas N. Jester in the driver’s seat with fatal gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. The shooting was the city’s third homicide that year.

Investigators say the incident began as a narcotics transaction: Jester had driven to an apartment complex with an associate to sell about $400 worth of marijuana. Digital forensics showed the meeting had been arranged via Snapchat with a local teenager. Prosecutors later charged three people in connection with the killing. Aaron Michael Hays, a passenger who fled after the shooting, was charged with second-degree murder and drug delivery; he admitted the deal went bad and later pleaded guilty to a drug-related charge. Two 17-year-olds, Xzaveion King and Deterice R. Doss, were also charged with second-degree murder; court filings report differing accounts, including claims of self-defense, flight from the scene with the weapon, and an alleged plan to rob Jester.

Does anyone have information about Lucas Jester, the meeting arranged on Snapchat, or the events that night?