Colby Stephenson was 16 when he was shot and killed in the early morning hours of December 18, 2017, in Blue Springs, Missouri. As he and friends were leaving a house party on Northwest Sixth Street, police say shots rang out; officers responding to a 1:39 a.m. call found Stephenson in the front yard with a fatal gunshot wound to the head and pronounced him dead at the scene. Investigators recovered 37 spent shell casings in the area.Case developments in February 2020 moved the investigation forward. Two men, Taron D.

Thompson and Javonte M. Tiger, both 21 at the time, were charged with second-degree murder, unlawful use of a weapon, and two counts of armed criminal action. Police had conducted a traffic stop on December 20, 2017, and found a 9 mm pistol and ammunition in a red Dodge Avenger occupied by Thompson and Tiger. Ballistics testing later tied six casings from the scene to the 9 mm attributed to Thompson, and two witnesses identified both men as the shooters.The shooting left a Valley View High School junior and his family grieving.

If anyone has information about the night Colby was killed, please come forward to investigators.