A confrontation over a crashed drone in Ogden turned deadly on the evening of September 4, 2023. Thirty-one-year-old Royer Peña, a Mexico-born father of five who had just celebrated his birthday, found a drone that had struck a tree and fallen on the 700 block of North Liberty Avenue. His neighbor, 25-year-old Brendon Michael Powell, a Marine Corps veteran, had flown the drone and went to retrieve it after it crashed.

Surveillance footage shows Powell racking the slide of a handgun before approaching Peña. An argument followed; Peña briefly ran, then returned carrying the drone with one hand in his pocket. Powell fired seven rounds, striking Peña multiple times. Peña died at the scene with wounds to his chest, heart, lung, intestines, pelvis, ribs and limbs. Powell called dispatch afterward and said he had shot a man over the drone because he didn’t want to lose it. Powell was arrested and charged with murder and several counts of felony discharge of a firearm.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember what happened that night or who can add details about the confrontation?