On April 9, 2015, police in Kansas City, Missouri, found 21-year-old Shawndray Key dead of gunshot wounds inside a parked vehicle near 62nd Street and Agnes Avenue. Known to friends and family as T-Man or Dray, Key was born in Macon, Georgia, moved to Kansas City at 13, graduated from Southwest Early College Campus, and was attending Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley. He hoped to pursue music and start his own clothing line.

Investigators identified brothers Shyreif M. Carter and Teandre Carter as suspects. Court records say the brothers planned to rob Key of a gun and drugs; a witness saw a white Kia leave the scene, and testimony placed the brothers being driven to the location before approaching Key’s vehicle. Shyreif Carter later told police the robbery was the motive.

In June 2016 both brothers pleaded guilty to charges that included second-degree murder, attempted robbery, and armed criminal action; Teandre Carter also pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property and a judge sentenced each to 15 years in prison. Did anyone who knew Shawndray see him in Kansas City in the days before April 9, 2015?