Brian M. Wright Jr., 23, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of June 21, 2024, in Topeka, Kansas. Officers responding just after 2:15 a.m. to the 3100 block of S.W. Westover Road found two people with gunshot wounds. Wright and a woman were taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries; Wright died and the woman survived.

The Topeka Police Department opened a homicide investigation, recorded as the city’s seventh of the year. On June 28, an 18-year-old, Dasanee D. Curry Jr., was arrested and booked on suspicion of intentional and premeditated first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and criminal discharge of a weapon at an occupied dwelling. A second person, Daequan Rayton, was later charged and transferred into Shawnee County custody on charges related to Wright’s killing. The case was proceeding through the legal system as of June 2024.

Does anyone have information about the shooting or knew Brian Wright Jr. that could help investigators?