On the evening of April 15, 2018, gunfire erupted at the Pilot Travel Station on Murfreesboro Road in Lebanon, Tennessee. Responding officers found 19-year-old Ethan Doughten with multiple gunshot wounds; he was taken to Tennova Hospital Lebanon where he died. A 15-year-old, Tylon Batey, was also brought to the same hospital in a private vehicle and later died from gunshot wounds sustained in the same incident.

Police determined the shootings grew out of a drug transaction that went wrong and took three suspects into custody: Derrick La’Juan Rucker Jr., then 18; Lashea Garrett, then 21; and a juvenile who was arrested nearby. In May 2019 Rucker pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and Garrett also entered a guilty plea for her role; details of their sentences and the juvenile’s case have not been publicly detailed.

If anyone witnessed the shooting at the Pilot station that night or has information about the events leading up to the transaction, please share what is known.