On the morning of February 5, 2019, 40-year-old Michael E. Bryan was found dead on a sidewalk in the Crossroads District of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Officers responding to reports of a shooting at a Windstar gas station at 17th Street and Grand Boulevard discovered Bryan with fatal gunshot wounds outside the business shortly after 5:00 a.m.

Surveillance footage from the gas station showed Bryan having a brief interaction with another man on the north side of the property. As Bryan walked away the other man drew a firearm and shot him in the back. The camera also recorded the suspect blowing his nose into a tissue and discarding it in the parking lot; investigators recovered that tissue and submitted it for forensic analysis. A backpack and jacket abandoned in a nearby alley were also recovered.

DNA from the discarded tissue matched Timothy R. Fernandez, and a fingerprint from inside the backpack tied to the same man. Ammunition recovered in the bag was the same caliber as a bullet taken from the victim’s jacket.

Did anyone who knew Michael E. Bryan recognize the jacket or backpack recovered near the scene?