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In the early morning hours of Friday, October 16, 2020, gunfire in Independence, Kansas, ended with a vehicle crashed into an apartment building and two young men dead. Tyler Cook, 27, was found deceased inside the vehicle; 24-year-old Rodricus Dawson was also killed. A 27-year-old woman in the same vehicle survived wounds and was hospitalized and expected to live.

Investigators from the Independence Police Department and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation responded after a citizen called 911 to report gunshots. Two days later, on October 18, an arrest warrant charged 18-year-old James T. S. Gofourth of Independence with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder; Gofourth was already in the Labette County Jail on unrelated charges at the time.

What information do readers in Independence have that could help clarify what happened that morning?