John W. Waldon, 31, was one of three men fatally shot during a violent weekend in Kansas City on the night of July 1, 2017. Waldon and 49-year-old Andre L. Barnes were found dead in the street at 28th Terrace and Myrtle Avenue; earlier that evening investigators discovered 46-year-old Darren L. Harris shot to death inside his silver BMW in the 1600 block of East 80th Street.

Police determined Waldon, Barnes and Harris had traveled from Tulsa to Kansas City for a drug transaction and later linked the killings to a dispute over a drug debt stemming from a prior PCP deal. A Jackson County grand jury returned indictments in April 2020 charging four Kansas City men in connection with the three murders. Rashidi Crosdale and Tyree West were charged with three counts of first-degree murder and related armed criminal action counts; Terrence Harden and Ravon Freeman faced two counts each.

Court developments up to the indictments included West’s fingerprints inside Harris’s car, text messages from Harden to Crosdale indicating where Waldon and Barnes were found, and a witness saying Freeman claimed he and Crosdale had shot two men from out of town. Harden later pleaded guilty to attempted robbery in exchange for testimony, and Freeman was acquitted on all charges in May 2022. Did anyone in the Kansas City area know Waldon or have information about his movements that night?