Seventeen-year-old Boisy Barefield was killed while attending a graduation party in Wichita, Kansas on the evening of May 28, 2022. The celebration, held in the 3100 block of East 25th Street North, devolved into a disturbance between two groups and shots were fired. Emergency crews found Boisy inside the banquet hall around 11:20 p.m.; he was taken to a hospital and later died of his gunshot wounds.

The same night a 15-year-old girl who was fleeing the scene was struck and killed by a vehicle at 25th Street North and Estelle; the driver, an 18-year-old woman who initially fled, was later located and arrested in the hit-and-run. Despite the large crowd at the party, investigators report widespread noncooperation from potential witnesses, and no arrests have been announced in connection with Boisy’s killing. The Wichita Police Department now lists the investigation as a cold case.

Did anyone at the graduation party or nearby that night see something that could help identify who fired the shots?