In the early morning hours of Friday, October 16, 2020, the life of 24-year-old Rodricus A. Dawson, a Black male from Independence, Kansas, was tragically cut short. Reports of gunfire in the 500 block of N. Penn Ave. in Independence led police to a grim discovery at approximately 3:45 a.m. A vehicle had crashed into an apartment building, and inside, Dawson and another man, 27-year-old Tyler D. Cook, were found deceased. Both men had been shot. A third individual, a 27-year-old woman, was also
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