A family outing at a Kansas City water park in May 2015 ended in fatal violence when 19-year-old Ryshun Bell was shot at the CoCo Key Water Resort connected to the Adam’s Mark Hotel. A heated argument in the pool area escalated into the resort’s main entrance and foyer, where 24-year-old Divonte L. Lewis produced a black handgun and fired several shots, striking Bell and another man. Witnesses saw three men flee on foot into nearby woods. Bell was taken to a hospital and died of his injuries; the other victim suffered non-life-threatening wounds.

Police identified Divonte L. Lewis as the shooter and charged him with second-degree murder, assault, and armed criminal action. At trial the defense claimed Lewis acted in self-defense and that Bell had been armed; prosecutors said Lewis was the aggressor who used deadly force in a verbal dispute. A Jackson County jury convicted Lewis of second-degree murder and armed criminal action, and a judge later imposed a 23-year prison term for the murder charge, with a concurrent 10-year sentence for the armed criminal action.

Did anyone who attended the CoCo Key Water Resort that day see the confrontation or the three men running toward the wooded area?