Damen Taylor Jr, 18, was shot on the evening of Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in the 9400 block of East 39th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Family members drove him to a local hospital after the shooting; he died of his wounds the next day, April 2, 2020. Officers who responded to the scene found the shooter had already fled.

Witnesses said a fight occurred between Taylor and another man, Caylon D. Dudley, and prosecutors say Dudley claimed he drew his weapon after seeing Taylor strike his brother. An investigation identified a suspect and the case went to trial. In November 2021 a Jackson County jury found Caylon D. Dudley guilty of voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action; in January 2022 a judge sentenced him to 12 years for manslaughter and a concurrent five-year term for armed criminal action.

Do readers who were in that neighborhood in April 2020 remember anything that might help clarify what happened that night?