Debrylan Eurell Bell, an 18-year-old student at Wichita’s North High School, was fatally shot the morning of October 5, 2016 while sitting in a car in the parking lot of the Woodgate apartment complex on East 21st Street. He had gone to the apartments to meet someone shortly before 4:30 a.m. and was struck multiple times after assailants fired between 20 and 30 rounds into the vehicle.

Authorities described the killing as a targeted act connected to a dispute among acquaintances with gang-related undertones; police said both Bell and one of the suspects were documented members of rival gangs, a characterization his mother disputed. Witnesses saw a black SUV speed away, and a GPS monitoring device that one suspect was required to wear placed him at the scene. Court records show at least two different guns were used.

Two primary suspects were charged: Dennis Saquan McGaugh III, 17 at the time, and Terasha Diane Presley-Dupree, 18. Both later pleaded to charges related to the shooting and received prison sentences. Two other women, Jamasia Dear and ZahKavia Qauatia Beans, were arrested early on but were released and no active case proceeded against them. The exact motive for the dispute that led to Bell’s death remains unclear.

Did anyone who knew Debrylan or who was at Woodgate that morning see or hear anything that could help clarify what sparked the attack?