In the early morning of August 9, 2018, gunfire was reported in a Junction City, Kansas neighborhood. Police responding at about 1:48 a.m. found 21-year-old Darian White, a Black / African American resident, in the parking lot of an apartment complex in the 700 block of W. 11th Street. He had sustained multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, prompting a homicide investigation.

The investigation produced rapid arrests. On August 15, 2018, authorities announced that 24-year-old Jacqueline Charda Sampson of Fort Riley, 18-year-old Cameron Michael Fontenot of Junction City, and a 17-year-old juvenile had been identified and taken into custody on charges of first-degree murder and burglary. Sampson and Fontenot were booked into the Geary County Detention Center and held without bond; the juvenile was detained at the North Central Kansas Regional Juvenile Detention Center. The investigation remained active as officers worked to piece together the circumstances of the shooting.

If anyone was in the area of W. 11th Street and the nearby apartment complex on the night of August 9, 2018, or has information about what happened, please come forward.