On the evening of April 23, 2020, a disturbance at a home in the 200 block of North Charles in Wichita, Kansas, ended with 30-year-old Blake Mayes shot on the front porch. Police were called around 7:10 p.m.; Mayes was taken to a local hospital and died about an hour later from a single gunshot wound.

Investigators say the confrontation involved Mayes, his 36-year-old girlfriend Bobbie Williams-Cox, and two male acquaintances, 51-year-old William James Moore and 28-year-old Jesse Sweeney. Court records state the group had been smoking methamphetamine and that Williams-Cox alleged Mayes had been abusive and had stolen her stimulus card. Williams-Cox and the two men reportedly intended to teach him a lesson; Mayes tried to leave and was shot in the chest.

All three named individuals were sought by police after the shooting, and arrests followed. What details about motive, timeline inside the house, or who fired the fatal shot remain unclear to readers with information about Blake Mayes or the people involved is asked to come forward.