On the evening of August 16, 2015, Preston Patton, 25, was found dead in the street outside his father’s home in Parsons, Kansas. Responders arriving after a 911 call discovered Preston with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest; his father, 56-year-old Jeffery M. Patton, was also at the scene with head injuries. Investigators say a verbal argument between father and son escalated into a physical fight shortly before the shooting.

Jeffery Patton was charged with first-degree murder and held on $500,000 bond. During a preliminary hearing prosecutors presented testimony from five witnesses and a recording of the 911 call in which Jeffery Patton said there had been a murder; one of Preston’s friends said they had seen the verbal and physical altercation just before Preston was shot. A court denied Jeffery Patton’s claim of self-defense.

The case concluded when Jeffery Patton pleaded no contest to amended charges of second-degree intentional murder and aggravated kidnapping and received consecutive prison terms of 165 months for each count; restitution for Preston’s funeral expenses was ordered. Did anyone in Parsons know Preston or have information about the events that led up to that night?