Ja’Sean Alston, 19, was shot in the early hours of February 28, 2020, in Topeka. Reports came in just before 1:30 a.m. of a shooting in the 1200 block of S.W. Washburn Avenue. Responding officers found Ja’Sean inside a vehicle with life-threatening injuries; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

He was a Topeka native who graduated from Washburn Rural High School in 2018 and was remembered by family as kind, caring, and generous. Known as Jay, he enjoyed video games, working on cars, and making music, and was a father to two children with a third on the way. The city’s second homicide of the year, his death prompted an investigation that led a few days later to the arrest of 18-year-old Dmario M. Valdivia of Topeka, who faced requested charges including first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, and aggravated robbery.

Does anyone who knew Ja’Sean or who was in that neighborhood that night have information that could help?