On the evening of August 18, 2016, 19-year-old Davyon S. Coates was killed during an altercation in the parking lot of a Church’s Chicken at Gregory Boulevard and Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. The meeting had been arranged as a narcotics transaction; Coates entered a Chevrolet Uplander driven by Darrell K. Roberson Jr. and Roselynn S. Kuntz, who had their two young children, ages two and three, in the van because they could not secure a babysitter.

According to statements made to investigators, Coates brandished a firearm and demanded money. Roberson moved to the rear seat and then lunged forward to try to suppress the weapon, and a struggle for the gun followed. Roberson was shot in the shoulder. During the struggle a bullet struck the two-year-old daughter in the head, leaving her critically injured. Kuntz alleges Roberson dropped his handgun, which she retrieved and then used to shoot Coates. Coates was pronounced dead at the scene; three firearms and a large quantity of marijuana were recovered.

Jackson County prosecutors charged Roberson and Kuntz with child abuse and two counts of first-degree child endangerment for firing weapons near their children, and the couple was arraigned pleading not guilty. Does anyone have additional information about the events in that parking lot or about the victims and family?