DNA on hat that is left at the crime scene

Kansas City, Mo. – Detective DNA evidence for a baseball hat that was left behind at the Grandview crime scene in order to take charges against a suspect.

Around 8 a.m. on July 6, 2024The police in Grandview received a call about a shootout in a town house complex. The police and paramedics arrived and found the victim dead from several gunshot wounds.

When Detectives processed the scene, they found a baseball cap “Rick and Morty” on site and found that the victim's backpack had been stolen.

Family members of the victim said that the hat that was found on site did not belong to the victim, which had raised the suspicion of the detective that the hat might belong to the suspect.

The court files submitted on Wednesday showed that Detectives checked the data on the reader of license plate from a camera near the murder location and that a SAAB vehicle belonged to the vehicle as potentially.

About a month after the murder, detectives received DNA test results from Steffon Smith's hat.

The police were able to receive Smith's mobile phone records, which found that his cell phone was in the area at the time of murder. Smith also belonged to the Saab vehicle in the area after the murder.

In his residence, detective carried out several months of monitoring Smith and finally took him into custody after a patient situation on April 18, 2025.

When detectives were in custody, they asked Smith in which he denied that they had killed someone.

While Smith remained in custody, Detectives heard a phone call that made Smith out of prison, in which he told the person at the other end of the call: “I don't want to make too much calling if I am not out, I will be here.

On Wednesday, the Jackson County Smith public prosecutor accused a second degree murder and an armed criminal lawsuit.

It is recorded until the first court records without a bond.

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