On the evening of July 13, 2020, officers in Topeka responded to a home in the 1100 block of S.W. Clay and found 66-year-old Harry J. Jenkins fatally shot. Jenkins, a Black/African American male, was one of three people killed in separate shootings across the city within about six hours that evening. Another person at the Clay Street residence was injured and taken to a local hospital.

The Topeka Police Department opened a homicide investigation into Jenkins’s death. Public reports have not described a motive or named any persons of interest, and no arrests had been announced in connection with this murder as of the latest reports. The case remains open and investigators continue to ask anyone with information to contact the Topeka Police Department or Shawnee County Crime Stoppers.

If anyone knew Harry Jenkins or has information about the events at the S.W. Clay residence on July 13, 2020, please share what you know with investigators.