In the early morning of Friday, October 16, 2020, gunfire in the 500 block of N. Penn Ave. in Independence, Kansas, ended with a car crashing into an apartment building and two men dead. Rodricus A. Dawson, 24, and 27-year-old Tyler D. Cook were found inside the vehicle; both had been shot. A 27-year-old woman in the car was wounded and taken to a Joplin hospital; she was expected to survive.

The Independence Police Department called in the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, whose special agents and Crime Scene Response Team led the homicide inquiry. On the evening of October 18 an arrest warrant was served for 18-year-old James T. S. Gofourth, then already in the Labette County Jail on unrelated charges; the warrant charged him with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder.

Are there details about that night or the people involved that anyone in the area can share?