On the early morning of June 7, 2017, a shooting on the 7100 block of Monroe Avenue in Kansas City left three men dead. Around 1:00 a.m. gunfire struck a vehicle parked outside a blue duplex. Cortez Hanley, 28, along with 28-year-old Chad Cain and 34-year-old Kevin Murrell, were found with fatal gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators recovered numerous shell casings on the driveway but initially had no suspect information and struggled to find witnesses who would identify the shooter.

Cortez Hanley performed locally as a rapper under the names Sauce Money and Duck Sauce. He had been released from federal prison in March 2016 after a firearms conviction and had previously been linked to a group called the Click Clack Gang; he had also survived a shooting as a teenager. Hanley’s mother said he was shot from behind. The killings were publicly unresolved and raised concern about possible retaliatory violence in the neighborhood.

Anyone with information about that night or the people responsible is asked to come forward.