On the evening of September 3, 2016, Steven L. Sykes, a 36-year-old Black man and resident of Kansas City, Kansas, was found with gunshot wounds in the 3100 block of North 21st Street and later died. The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department Major Case Unit led the investigation.

Within days investigators identified a suspect and took that person into custody. The Wyandotte County prosecutor’s office charged 30-year-old Daryl Bagby with first-degree murder and criminal possession of a firearm; Bagby was held in the Wyandotte County jail on $750,000 bond.

Sykes is remembered as a father, a son, and a friend. If anyone was in the area that night or has information about the shooting, please come forward.