Sanquan Brooks, 30, was shot and killed on July 18, 2020, in a parking lot in the 700 block of North 13th Street in Leavenworth, Kansas. Officers found Brooks inside a vehicle and he was pronounced dead at the scene. Early accounts say an exchange of gunfire broke out during a meeting tied to a vehicle-for-cash-and-drugs deal that evening.

Investigators identified two other men at the center of the encounter: Cody J. Nichols of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, and Collin Ireland. Prosecutors said Nichols had driven to Leavenworth in a stolen Nissan Pathfinder to trade it for money and drugs, that both Nichols and Brooks displayed firearms, and that Nichols shot Brooks five times with a semiautomatic handgun, also wounding Ireland in the right arm before fleeing. An arrest followed and charges were presented to the county attorney.

If anyone has information about the events in the 700 block of North 13th Street on July 18, 2020, or knew Brooks, Nichols, or Ireland, please share what you know.