On the evening of July 22, 2020, 35-year-old Lodiller Styles was found with gunshot wounds in the middle of the street at East 40th Street and Tracy Avenue in Kansas City. Earlier that day Styles had been in his blue pickup truck with a man described as his friend, Jonathan L. Bradford. A witness who was also in the truck said Bradford had been smoking narcotics and acting erratically.

According to witness accounts, Styles pulled over to let Bradford out and showed him how to open a child-locked door; Bradford then allegedly shot Styles in the head. The pickup later struck a nearby van, witnesses said, and Bradford reportedly pulled Styles from the driver’s seat onto the street and fled the scene in Styles’ truck, running over Styles’ body. Investigators quickly identified Bradford as the primary suspect; within a week he was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, tampering with a motor vehicle, and abandonment of a corpse. Bradford reportedly sent a message to a relative saying in part than f--- it yes I did do it, but he denied the shooting during a police interview.

Did anyone in the Manheim Park area see the pickup or the van that afternoon, or have information about the events leading up to that shooting?