In the early morning hours of September 8, 2018, 23-year-old Gary Starr was shot and killed at the northwest corner of 18th Street and Highland Avenue in Kansas City’s 18th and Vine District. Off-duty officers found his body shortly before 1 a.m. Starr, a Center High School and Missouri Western State University graduate with a degree in Athletic Training, was a father remembered as full of life.

Investigators say the shooting grew out of a prior altercation. Witnesses reported Starr was waiting in line to enter the Juke House when four men approached; surveillance shows one of them, identified as Brandon D. Jones, approach Starr and open fire before fleeing. Police used traffic cameras and vehicle records to identify Jones and obtained a warrant charging him with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Jones was arrested and held on $250,000 cash bond. In August 2019 Jones pleaded guilty to reduced charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action and received a life sentence for murder with a concurrent 30-year term for the armed criminal action.

Did anyone who knew Gary that night ever see him near the Juke House line or recognize the men who approached him?