On the early morning of May 14, 2022, a shooting in a downtown Springfield parking lot at 313 North Boonville Avenue left two men dead and a third wounded. Officers arrived about 1:48 a.m. to find 20-year-old Kylon McAfee in critical condition; he later died of his injuries. Twenty-three-year-old Malik Sutton was also struck and later died, making the incident a double homicide. A third male victim went separately to a hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and survived.

Detectives from the Springfield Police Department opened an investigation; the shootings were counted as the city’s fifth and sixth homicides that year. In the period immediately following the attack, police reported no suspects identified and no arrests made. Anyone who was in downtown Springfield that night or who has information about what happened is asked to come forward.