Daniel McPherson, 34, a Black man from Wichita, Kansas, was fatally shot in the early hours of December 6, 2023. Officers found his body with a gunshot wound to the head in the parking lot of a church in the 1700 block of East MacArthur at Hydraulic and MacArthur; he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators say the killing followed a planned robbery on the evening of December 5, 2023. Two men, Philip Lee Walls, 18, and James Giovanni Lee Sawyer, 20, arranged to meet McPherson and invited him into their vehicle. They intended to restrain him with a belt and steal drugs or other property, using a gun only as a last resort. The two men drove to a hospital in Blackwell, Oklahoma, where one of them admitted a gunshot wound and both were later taken into custody.

Both men pleaded guilty to charges related to McPherson’s death and received lengthy prison terms. Does anyone have information about McPherson’s movements in south Wichita on December 5–6, 2023?