On the afternoon of May 25, 2017, 19-year-old Christopher Hutson Jr. was driving a gold Chevy Impala in Kansas City, Missouri, with his girlfriend, who was seven months pregnant. After becoming disoriented in traffic near Interstate 435, Hutson drove slowly on Holmes Road near 104th Street. He encountered a blue sedan driven by 45-year-old John Clarence Young Jr., who pulled alongside, shouted an obscenity and criticized his driving. Hutson followed the sedan to the next stoplight, and when the vehicles aligned again Young fired a single shot through the open passenger window. The bullet grazed the pregnant passenger and struck Hutson in the head; he died at a hospital the next day, May 26, 2017.

Police identified Young from a tip after releasing surveillance images. Investigators say Young carried on with his routine before arrest, including work, a fishing trip to Branson and attending a Kansas City Royals game, and that he told his wife to remove the murder weapon and other items. Young was charged in Jackson County with second-degree murder, armed criminal action and related offenses; at trial the jury convicted him of involuntary manslaughter, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon, second-degree assault and tampering with physical evidence. In April 2018 a judge sentenced him to 24 years in prison. Hutson, a registered organ donor, was credited with saving multiple lives through his death.