On the night of October 14, 2015, 18-year-old Tyler Eddington was shot in the parking lot of a McDonald’s in the 4000 block of North Oak Trafficway, Kansas City, Missouri. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Investigators concluded the shooting followed a planned robbery rather than a random attack.

Detectives say Eddington’s close friend and former classmate Tristian A. Wilton arranged a meeting under the pretense of a drug transaction, then recruited Eddington to rob the dealer because the dealer already knew Wilton. Court documents state Eddington approached the victim armed, the meeting turned violent, and the dealer shot and killed Eddington. Prosecutors charged Wilton with second-degree murder under the felony murder doctrine and attempted robbery; he was held on a $1 million bond.

In April 2016 Wilton pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted robbery and the murder charge was dropped. At sentencing in June 2016 the judge imposed the statutory maximum of 15 years. Did anyone who knew Tyler or the two young men notice changes in their friendship before October 2015?