On the evening of June 24, 2013, 27-year-old Carlton L. Lewis was standing in the parking lot of Sycamore Groves Apartments in Kansas City, Missouri, when a vehicle with two women pulled into the complex to ask for directions. As Lewis and another man stood outside the visitors’ car assisting them, a gunman approached on foot and opened fire. Lewis was killed at the scene; the second man was critically injured but survived. The driver was struck in the arm and the passenger in the neck; the driver drove to a nearby McDonald’s to summon help and both women were treated and expected to survive.

Kansas City Police described the women as innocent bystanders and said they had no motive or suspect information available immediately after the attack. Lewis had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a 2009 drunk driving crash that killed his mother, Crystal S. Lewis, and his girlfriend, Melinda N. Reliford, and had been serving a four-year probation sentence at the time of his death.

Are there readers who remember that night or who have information about the shooting near 1711 Kansas Avenue?