On August 17, 2017, 28-year-old Leon Thomas Hinckley of Windsor, Missouri, was shot multiple times during a confrontation at Sunset Village Trailer Park just west of Sedalia and later died at Bothwell Regional Health Center. Witnesses said two men approached him in what was described as a robbery attempt; one carried a rifle and the other a handgun and demanded he empty his pockets. Emergency responders arrived about 12:50 p.m.The Pettis County Sheriff’s Office identified two suspects. Branden Lee Hendren, 23, of Independence, Missouri, was arrested August 24, 2017; investigators say he wielded the rifle and fired the fatal shots.

Ronald Maurice Cage, 29, of Kansas City, was arrested November 2, 2017, after being identified by Kansas City police during an unrelated incident. Both men fled the scene in a four-door passenger car.Afterward both defendants pleaded guilty rather than face jury trials. In November 2018 Hendren pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action and received consecutive terms totaling 42 years. Hinckley was remembered by family as someone who loved music, drawing and the outdoors and who left behind a daughter born two weeks before his death.

Does anyone have information about Hinckley’s activities in the Sedalia area that afternoon?