DShaun Jararde Smith was 18 when he was shot and killed in Wichita, Kansas, on April 3, 2017. The meeting began as a marijuana transaction near Kellogg and Woodlawn; Smith and his girlfriend met another young man, identified as Mark Holley III, who got into the back seat. Smith gave Holley marijuana, which Holley returned, and the encounter then escalated. Smith was shot once in the chest and was found dead in the front passenger seat after his girlfriend drove a short distance and stopped in the 6200 block of East Orme.

Holley was arrested and charged in connection with Smith’s death. A jury convicted Holley of first-degree felony murder in January 2019, along with several other charges. Holley appealed, arguing the jury should have been allowed to consider self-defense; the Kansas Supreme Court initially reversed that conviction in April 2021. After the state sought rehearing, the court in May 2022 reversed its earlier ruling and affirmed the first-degree murder conviction, finding a self-defense instruction was not legally appropriate because the death occurred during an inherently dangerous felony tied to the robbery during the drug deal.

Does anyone have additional information about the location or about witnesses to the April 3, 2017 meeting?