Vincent S. Trulson, a 27-year-old White man, was shot in the Armourdale neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas, on the evening of Sunday, August 5, 2018. Police found him in the 500 block of South 12th Street at about 8:45 p.m.; he was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead from his injuries. The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department’s Criminal Investigations Unit opened a homicide investigation.

Early investigative work did not immediately produce a suspect, and authorities asked the public for help. On August 22, 2018, Wyandotte County prosecutors charged 61-year-old Samuel M. Beard with reckless second-degree murder in Trulson’s death; Beard was also charged with two counts of aggravated intimidation of a witness and was held on $250,000 bond at the Wyandotte County Detention Center.

If anyone in Armourdale on or around August 5, 2018, has information about the shooting or witnessed anything in the 500 block of South 12th Street, please come forward.