On the evening of June 7, 2016, officers in Kansas City, Missouri, responded to the 3500 block of Flora Avenue after ShotSpotter alerts and reports of gunfire. They found 56-year-old Ricky A. Frazier dead on the front porch with fatal gunshot wounds and pronounced him deceased at the scene.

Witnesses and another injured person identified the shooter as Frazier’s 34-year-old nephew, Dedrick D. Pickens. When officers contacted the home, Pickens refused to come out and had to be tased before being taken into custody. A witness said Pickens appeared altered at the front door holding a firearm, and that the suspect chased someone out of the house before another shot was fired. Pickens told detectives he had smoked three sticks of PCP that day.

Officers recovered a loaded .357 caliber revolver hidden between mattresses and spent casings, and found small bags of a white powder on Pickens that field-tested positive for cocaine. Prosecutors charged Dedrick D. Pickens with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, two counts of armed criminal action, unlawful possession of a firearm, and possession of a controlled substance, with bond set at $250,000.

Did anyone in the neighborhood know the victim or the family and see activity around Flora Avenue that night?