John W. Waldon, 31, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was found shot to death on the night of July 1, 2017, in Kansas City, Missouri. He and a companion, 49-year-old Andre L. Barnes, were discovered in the street at 28th Terrace and Myrtle Avenue; both had been shot. Earlier that same evening police found 46-year-old Darren L. Harris, also from Tulsa, inside a car in the 1600 block of East 80th Street. Investigators determined the three men had traveled together from Oklahoma and tied the killings to a drug deal gone wrong — Harris was reportedly in Kansas City to collect between $10,000 and $20,000 owed from a prior PCP transaction.

In April 2020 a Jackson County grand jury indicted four Kansas City men in the triple homicide: Rashidi Crosdale and Tyree West were each charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of armed criminal action, while Terrence Harden and Ravon Freeman faced two counts each of those charges. At that time Crosdale and West were in federal custody on unrelated charges; Harden and Freeman had been arrested. By May 2022 Freeman was acquitted and Harden had pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in exchange for testifying against Freeman. Did anyone who knew John Waldon or his companions travel with them to Kansas City or have information about that trip?