A young man was killed in a parking-lot shooting in Aurora on April 27, 2025. Rajon Darquell Joseph, 26, was found with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest around 2:15 a.m. in the 15000 block of East Mississippi Avenue near Chambers Road. He was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead; another man suffered a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg.

Police arrested 32-year-old Brandon Ellis Sutton of Aurora that same afternoon on suspicion of first-degree murder. Investigators say Sutton was known to both victims. According to an arrest affidavit, Joseph and his companions had driven to a bar so Joseph could meet a man and return a set of keys; when they pulled into the parking lot a man in a Honda opened fire. Eyewitnesses identified Sutton as the shooter and surveillance video captured the Honda’s license plate, which was registered to him. The motive has not been released.

Anyone who knew Rajon Darquell Joseph or who witnessed the early-morning shooting, or who has information about the encounter in the parking lot, is asked to come forward.