On the evening of January 12, 2017, a home invasion and shooting at The Trails at the Ridge apartment complex in Kansas City left three people dead and two critically injured. Officers responding just before 10:00 p.m. to a third-floor unit in the 8600 block of East 62nd Street found 29-year-old Darrell E. Thomas and 28-year-old Victoria Brown deceased at the scene; 20-year-old Ali R. Brown was transported to a hospital and later died of her wounds. Two survivors included a 22-year-old woman shot in the face and Ali Brown’s 2-year-old son, who was shot five times and suffered a broken arm but survived.

Detectives reported no signs of forced entry and investigators followed leads that the three male suspects had been let into the apartment. Witnesses described three Black males fleeing in a black or blue four-door vehicle; one had a light complexion and shoulder-length dreadlocks, another wore a light gray hooded sweatshirt, and the third was not described in detail. No arrests or convictions had been announced in connection with these killings as of the last available reports.

If anyone has information about who entered that apartment that night or about the vehicle seen leaving the scene, please come forward to assist the investigation.