On the evening of October 12, 2002, a family gathering at the Gary, Indiana home of 50-year-old Delores Buchanan turned deadly. Her son Herman Buchanan had invited friends Simeon Bradley and Larry Peaches Jr., and the gathering was joined by Herman’s cousin Ronnie Drane, who at the time was a fugitive on federal drug conspiracy charges. After excusing himself to use the bathroom, Drane emerged with a handgun and opened fire. Larry Peaches Jr. was killed, Herman was shot in the jaw, and Delores Buchanan was later found in a bedroom closet with multiple gunshot wounds.

Drane fled Indiana after the shootings. In March 2003 he arranged an attempted murder of Herman in Kentucky, which failed, and later that month Herman was ambushed and killed in Frankfort, Kentucky. Federal marshals captured Ronnie Drane in Tennessee in March 2004; he was charged with two counts of murder and with attempted murder and aggravated battery related to the earlier attacks. A jury later returned guilty verdicts on all counts except aggravated battery.

Did anyone at the gathering or in Gary at the time notice tensions involving Drane before that night?