On the morning of October 31, 2014, 22-year-old Dionte Greene was found slumped over the center console of his running car in the 6900 block of Bellefontaine Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Greene had sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the face; the vehicle’s lights were on and the windows were covered in moisture. The body was located miles from his home in a residential area.

Investigators reconstructed the events using Greene’s cellphone records and social media. Greene had arranged a sexual encounter with someone known online as Tra da Gunner, later identified as Travone Shaw. Court records and testimony state Shaw and an accomplice, Antonio Golston, planned to rob Greene. Surveillance showed Greene driving with Shaw as a passenger shortly before the shooting. Testimony says Golston, in the back seat, produced a .45 caliber handgun during a struggle and fired, killing Greene; the two then fled, leaving Greene in the idling car.

The case was tried in Jackson County. In May 2016 a jury convicted Travone Shaw of involuntary manslaughter, stealing, and two counts of armed criminal action; Shaw was sentenced to 17 years. In October 2016 a separate jury convicted Antonio Golston of voluntary manslaughter, first-degree robbery, and two counts of armed criminal action; Golston received a 25-year sentence. Did anyone in the neighborhood see the gold sedan or the men getting into the car that night?