Devin David-Lee Hoadley, 22, was shot and killed in Topeka on the afternoon of Monday, April 13, 2026. The shooting took place in the 200 block of Southeast 29th Street. First responders found Hoadley with a life-threatening gunshot wound; emergency medical personnel transported him to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The Topeka Police Department opened a homicide investigation, identifying this as the city’s third homicide of the year.

Investigators sought a person of interest in the days after the shooting and publicly named 20-year-old Tayvian Smith. On Tuesday, April 28, 2026, police announced Smith had been taken into custody and booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections; he faces charges of second-degree murder and aggravated battery in connection with Hoadley’s death.

If anyone has information about Hoadley, the events on April 13, or the area around Southeast 29th Street that could assist the investigation, please come forward.