On December 18, 2017, 25-year-old Travis Mills was shot and later died after a planned marijuana transaction in a south Kansas City apartment complex parking lot in the 1500 block of East 97th Street turned violent. Mills had arranged to sell about $750 worth of marijuana, which he had brought from Colorado, to Malik S. Chapple. A woman accompanied Mills to the meeting.

Chapple arrived with another man and a child in his car. After briefly entering the back seat of Mills’ vehicle to supposedly weigh the marijuana, Chapple returned to his own car, came back armed with a handgun, and the other man approached Mills’ driver side and began a struggle. During that struggle Chapple shot Mills, then threatened the female witness and demanded the marijuana before he and the passenger fled. Mills was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

Investigators traced Chapple using his cellphone number, and the female witness identified him as the shooter. In December 2017 Jackson County prosecutors charged Malik S. Chapple, then 21, with second-degree murder, robbery, endangering the welfare of a child, and armed criminal action; in June 2019 Chapple, then 23, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Does anyone have additional information about Mills or the woman who was with him that could shed light on what happened that night?