On April 12, 2021, 30-year-old Reginald Palmer Jr. was fatally shot during a planned meeting in the 7200 block of Blue Grouse Lane in southeast Shelby County. Despite being mortally wounded with a bullet in his side, Palmer drove away and told his girlfriend in the front passenger seat to call 911. Their vehicle hit a curb and stopped on a sidewalk in front of a house on Easterly Lane, where Palmer was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators identified 31-year-old Jeffery Q. Boyle as a suspect. Boyle reportedly returned to the already active crime scene to retrieve a cell phone he had dropped, then fled from deputies. He was arrested later that day at a residence in Cordova; officers recovered the cell phone, a pistol, and seven bags of marijuana. A Shelby County Grand Jury later indicted Boyle on first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, employment of a firearm in the commission of a dangerous felony, unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to sell and deliver, and tampering with evidence. He was released on a $125,000 bond.

What details about the meeting or the people involved might help explain why Palmer was shot?