Louis M. Scherzer, 29, was shot and killed after being confronted in an alley behind Chicago’s bar in the 600 block of Central Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas, in the early hours of November 27, 2016. Scherzer had stepped outside around 12:30 a.m. while with friends and his fiancée, Ellie Long, when two young men attempted a robbery; he was shot in the back as he turned to get away. He was taken to Truman Medical Center, where he died.

Scherzer worked as a union steward for the Board of Public Utilities and was remembered by family and friends as generous and affable; many later wore shirts reading Live Like Lou. Two suspects were identified and arrested. Filiberto Espinoza Jr., 20 at the time, pleaded guilty in September 2017 and received life with parole eligibility after 25 years. Efrain Gonzalez, 18 at the time, was convicted by a Wyandotte County jury in March 2018 and received the same sentence.