On the evening of March 4, 2019, 19-year-old Riley S. McCrackin of Belton, Missouri, was fatally shot in the rear parking lot of the Raytown Recreation Pool Hall in Raytown. Surveillance footage shows McCrackin waiting in the lot just before 11 p.m., after earlier playing pool, when two individuals emerged from behind a dumpster and the building, brandished handguns and opened fire, striking him multiple times. Investigators recovered five .45-caliber and three 9mm shell casings at the scene.

The investigation named four suspects who were late teens or in their early twenties at the time. Authorities identified Logan England and Tynan Mullen as the shooters. Two others, Kaci Cox and Mackenzie Hyatt, were implicated; Hyatt drove the getaway car, a white Dodge Dart, and later said the plan was to squash beef with McCrackin. Cox and Mullen were seen returning to the pool hall after the shooting and mingling with mourners.

England surrendered seven days after the shooting and later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action; he was sentenced to 20 years for murder and a concurrent three-year term for armed criminal action in September 2021. Mullen was charged with first-degree murder. Cox and Hyatt faced second-degree murder charges; Hyatt pleaded guilty in October 2021. In February 2022 McCrackin’s father filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the four charged in the case.

Did anyone at the pool hall that night see something about the parking-lot confrontation that hasn’t been shared publicly?