Christopher McMillon, 38, was found dead from apparent gunshot wounds inside his Topeka residence near Southwest 3rd Street and Southwest Polk Street after police conducted a welfare check on October 3, 2020. The Topeka Police Department treated the death as suspicious and opened a homicide investigation.

Investigators tied the killing to a dispute over synthetic marijuana. Surveillance footage showed a man and two women entering McMillon’s home about 12:33 a.m. and leaving roughly seven minutes later, one woman carrying a television. Law enforcement identified those people as Todge Anton Anderson and two women, Tishara Moran and Latrelle Praylow. Moran and Praylow later confirmed Anderson was with them and described what happened that night. Moran was arrested near Lawrence days after the murder and Praylow was arrested weeks later in Seattle under a different name; Anderson was located in Omaha in early January 2021.

What additional information about McMillon’s life or contacts might help explain how this dispute escalated to violence?