On September 19, 2015, two men were found dead near the entrance of the now-shuttered El Ray Mobile Home Park in Columbia, Missouri. The victims were identified as 42-year-old Kenneth B. Long of Mexico, Missouri, and 41-year-old James W. Richardson of Columbia. Investigators determined both had died of gunshot wounds the previous day in what was treated as a double homicide.

Detectives focused on Darious Ashton Lucas after cell phone records placed him near Richardson around the time of the killings. Investigators say the deaths were likely drug-related, with Richardson described as involved in drug dealing and Long an associate at the meeting. Ballistics linked shell casings at the scene to a stolen Glock recovered by police, and Lucas reportedly made incriminating statements to other inmates while in custody.

Lucas was tried in 2018; the jury convicted him of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action and imposed two life terms without parole. Does anyone have information about Kenneth Long’s activities or associates in the Columbia or Mexico, Missouri, area around September 2015?