On the morning of June 12, 2022, a fatal shooting occurred at the Crown Lodge motel at 8500 East Missouri 350 Highway in Kansas City, Missouri. The victim was identified as 48-year-old Thomas Floyd. According to witnesses and surveillance footage, a confrontation began in the lobby after another man entered with a large can of beer, was told alcohol was not permitted, and threw the empty can outside. Floyd reportedly confronted him about littering, the argument escalated, and both Floyd and the clerk noticed a handgun visible in the other man’s front pocket.

Floyd called 911 to report a drunk individual with a gun and stepped outside; moments later shots were fired. Floyd collapsed in front of the doors, was taken to a hospital, and later died of his wounds. The assailant fled but was identified from motel records and video; police located and arrested a suspect the next morning after finding the matching Kansas license plate in a pickup truck. No name for the suspect was released in the initial public reports.

Does anyone have additional details about the timeline that morning or information about witnesses who were at the motel?