Adrian Dwayne Williams, 31, was killed in Topeka in the early morning of Saturday, November 20, 2021. Police responded shortly after midnight to the 2000 block of S.E. Pennsylvania Avenue after multiple reports of gunshots and found Williams on the ground with apparent gunshot wounds. Paramedics from American Medical Response attended, but his injuries were fatal and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Williams was born in Kansas City, Kansas, and had graduated from Olathe East High School; he had been considering a move to Topeka. By the evening of November 20, Topeka police had identified a suspect and took 21-year-old Christopher Mendez of Topeka into custody. Mendez was booked into the Shawnee County Department of Corrections on a requested charge of first-degree murder and the case was submitted to the Shawnee County District Attorney’s office for formal filing of charges.

Does anyone who knew Adrian or who was in that neighborhood that night have information to share?