On May 21, 2020, a drug transaction in the parking lot of an apartment complex near North West Street and West 13th Street in Wichita turned fatal. Twenty-one-year-old Earnest Jefferson, a Black male, was found with multiple gunshot wounds shortly after 5 p.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene. Nineteen-year-old Jahbreel Rounds was also shot at the same location and died days later after being hospitalized.

Police say the shooting occurred while Jefferson, Rounds, and two others — 18-year-old Preston Reynolds and 20-year-old Missy Barber — were inside a vehicle for a planned drug deal. Shots were fired during a disturbance; Reynolds was also wounded and arrived at a hospital about 5:40 p.m. with a leg wound. Reynolds and Barber fled but were later arrested; both were charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery.

Was anyone in the area that afternoon able to see what led to the disturbance inside the vehicle or who fired first?