Damario Cooks, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot during a birthday celebration outside Magoo’s Bar and Grill in Wichita, Kansas, on the night of September 29, 2019. A dispute inside the bar between several men moved into the parking lot near Pawnee and Oliver, and multiple shots were fired by more than one person shortly before 12:30 a.m. Cooks was taken by a private vehicle to a local hospital with critical injuries and later died of those wounds.

Investigators reported that some people at the bar that night were documented gang members, though it was not clear whether that fact was related to the altercation. Police identified a person of interest and asked the public for help locating 42-year-old David Pressley, who was later arrested and charged in connection with the shooting. The firearm used in the fatal shooting has not been recovered. No one else has been charged in Cooks’s death.

If anyone was at Magoo’s on September 29, 2019, or has information about the shooting or the weapon, please come forward.