In July 2014 a double homicide devastated a Lenexa family. Brian Stuart Baskind, 47, and his 79-year-old stepfather, Clifford Preston, were found stabbed to death in the basement of their Hallet Street home on July 9, 2014. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Alex Wayne Brune, followed Baskind home after seeing him driving his Mercedes-Benz convertible and then forced entry by cutting a window screen while dressed in black and wearing a mask.

Brune carried a large knife and an airsoft gun painted to look like a firearm. A violent struggle in the basement left both men fatally stabbed; one of the victims shot Brune during the encounter. Brune called 911 and was found on the front lawn. He first gave a fabricated account of being kidnapped and forced to stab the men, but later abandoned that story and pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder. In August 2016 a Johnson County judge imposed two consecutive life sentences, with a minimum of 50 years before parole, noting the brutality of the killings and Brune’s efforts to portray the victims as aggressors.

Did anyone in Lenexa recognize activity or suspicious vehicles around Hallet Street in early July 2014?