Laron Briggs, 25, was shot and killed while working at a Pizza Hut in the 4300 block of Rainbow Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas, on the evening of January 28, 2020. Police were dispatched just after 10:30 p.m.; officers found Briggs inside with a gunshot wound and emergency personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. This was the third homicide in Kansas City, Kansas, that year.

Investigators identified two suspects in the weeks after the shooting. Lacricia Leak-Myers and Gary A. Winters were arrested and charged by Wyandotte County prosecutors with first-degree murder and attempted aggravated robbery in connection with Briggs’s death.

Briggs was born March 8, 1994, and graduated from Ruskin High School in 2012. He worked full time at Williamson and part time at Pizza Hut, and was remembered for his love of sports, video games, family, and for making people laugh. If anyone has information about that night or knew Laron, please share what you can.