On the evening of December 26, 2017, 69-year-old Jimmy E. Kleinert arranged to meet James O’Brien and Bobby V. Kleinert, who was known to be carrying between $4,000 and $7,000 in cash, got into a minivan around 5:00 p.m. to complete a drug deal and was accompanied by a woman named Steph Johnny Walters.

During the transaction inside the minivan Kleinert was robbed of his money and shot. His body, with a single gunshot wound, was found the next morning on the side of Bear Hollow Road. The investigation implicated both O’Brien and Summers. Summers was later charged, entered a plea, and pleaded guilty to facilitation of first-degree premeditated murder under a plea agreement that resulted in a twenty-year sentence; the judgment was entered on August 21, 2019. Court documents note that James O’Brien died before Summers’ guilty plea.

Anyone with information about Kleinert, the meeting on December 26, 2017, or Steph Johnny Walters’ whereabouts that evening is asked to come forward.