On the afternoon of July 26, 2018, 25-year-old Coty D. Henry was found fatally shot inside a car in the parking lot of The Trails at the Ridge apartments in the 8600 block of East 61st Terrace, Kansas City, Missouri. Police received the call at about 2:45 p.m.; Henry was discovered in his sister’s vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. He had previously lived at that complex and still had friends and family there and may have been waiting for a friend when the shooting occurred.

Henry, a Black man described by family as a gentle giant and a teddy bear, stood six feet tall and weighed over 300 pounds. A Langston University graduate with a degree in business management, he had returned to Kansas City and was working on a production company with a friend while grieving the recent loss of his grandmother. Police took a person of interest into custody soon after the shooting; no further details about arrests or charges have been reported in the years since. Does anyone who knew Coty or who was in that area that day have information that could help clarify what happened?