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Christopher T. Wilkins, 27, was found shot to death inside a first-floor Park Avenue apartment in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, just after noon on Tuesday, August 30, 2016. An autopsy confirmed a gunshot wound and ruled the death a homicide. At the time he was subletting the apartment and was reportedly involved in selling heroin and cocaine.

Court allegations describe a robbery-for-drugs-and-money plot that led to Wilkins’ killing. Joseph Coleman Jr., James Calvin Rooks, Ariel Jane Harlan, and Jamal Brown were later identified in the investigation. Prosecutors say Brown owed a drug debt to Coleman and agreed to let Coleman and Rooks into the apartment by ensuring a back door was unlocked; Harlan allegedly drove the group. Coleman and Rooks, both armed, are said to have entered and one of them shot Wilkins in the head at near point-blank range while another occupant awoke to yelling and a gunshot and then saw two masked men flee out the back door.

Several arrests and charges followed in 2019 and testimony in 2020 implicated Coleman; in February 2020 Coleman was convicted on counts related to Wilkins’ murder and sentenced to state prison. Does anyone have information about Wilkins’ activities or contacts in Williamsport in 2016?