Michael Silas Jr., 22, was fatally shot in Kansas City, Missouri, on the night of May 11, 2018. The shooting happened around 11:28 p.m. in a parking lot near the Uptown Theater as a concert was concluding; police found him with a gunshot wound at 37th Street and Broadway Boulevard.

Months before his death Silas had lost his infant daughter in February. His mother, Margo Lampkin, said that grief prompted him to change his life: he moved from his old neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas, began living with his girlfriend, became active in his church, and took a full-time job as a forklift operator. Lampkin described him as more of a homebody who had been distancing himself from past troubles.

Lampkin believes people from Silas’s past may have been involved; she said a past associate reportedly saw him at the concert and may have contacted others. No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified and the investigation remains unresolved. Did anyone see Michael at the Uptown Theater parking area that night or have information about who might have followed him there?