On December 16, 2016, 20-year-old Warren Edward Banks II was shot and killed inside a vehicle in the 7700 block of East 52nd Street in Kansas City, Missouri. Banks and another man had arranged to sell marijuana to a buyer; when 17-year-old Jewell A. Jones Jr. entered the vehicle he allegedly announced a robbery and opened fire. The other occupant was seriously injured but survived.

Investigators relied on the surviving victim’s testimony and a witness who later said Jones had spoken about shooting at two men in a vehicle. The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged Jones as an adult with second-degree murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree assault and three counts of armed criminal action; a cash-only bond of $150,000 was requested by the prosecution.

Did anyone in Kansas City know Warren Banks or have information about the events that night?