On January 16, 2014, about 3:15 p.m., 40-year-old Marlon J. Williams was fatally shot in an outdoor passageway behind City Hall in the 700 block of North Seventh Street in Kansas City, Kansas. He had been at court earlier that day to address parking tickets and was taken to a nearby hospital after the shooting, where he was pronounced dead.

Williams, born August 14, 1973, was a lifelong Kansas City area resident, a F.L. Schagle High School graduate who attended Kansas City, Kansas Community College, and was employed at Exltube in North Kansas City, Missouri. He was a father of three daughters and remembered by family as kind and fun-loving. Police investigated the homicide, released surveillance footage and later said two people seen in the footage were contacted and not considered suspects. Williams’s mother suspected a possible link to a pending case in which he was to testify.

A suspect, Jeffrey Wayne Platt Jr., then 26 of Shawnee, was charged with premeditated first-degree murder in February 2014; that charge was dismissed for lack of evidence, and prosecutors refiled a first-degree murder charge against Platt in February 2017. Does anyone have information about Marlon’s activities that day or about the shooting near City Hall?