A promising 15-year-old was killed while closing a Kansas City, Kansas laundromat. December Htoo, who had come to the United States with his family after fleeing a refugee camp in Myanmar, was shot on the evening of November 17, 2017; his body was found the next morning. He was a student at J.C. Harmon High School, on the wrestling team, fluent in English, and had hoped to become a mixed martial arts fighter.

Early investigators had only grainy surveillance footage, shell casings recovered at the scene, and a nonworking in-store camera, leaving the case cold for years. In 2021 a gun recovered during a Lenexa arrest was identified through forensic testing as the weapon used in Htoo’s killing, and a later review of nearby video linked a car at the scene to a person named in reports.

If anyone knew December, his routines, or saw activity around the Argentine neighborhood laundromat on November 17, 2017, please share what you remember.