Shortly after midnight on February 22, 2024, gunfire was reported near South Campbell Avenue and Walnut Lawn Street in Springfield, Missouri. At 12:36 a.m. two men — 19-year-old Reggie Carey and 21-year-old Trevin Dicks — arrived at Cox South Hospital with gunshot wounds and were later pronounced dead.

Court documents describe the incident as a robbery that turned deadly. Carey and Dicks allegedly helped arrange a marijuana sale to lure the buyer into a vehicle, where they planned to ambush him with a rifle and a handgun. The intended victim was armed, drew his handgun during a struggle and fired multiple times into the back passenger area of the SUV, fatally wounding Carey and Dicks. Witnesses drove the injured men toward the hospital but they did not survive.

Springfield police arrested 19-year-old Tarrin Dicks and 18-year-old Izaiah Crabb and charged both with two counts of second-degree murder, one count of first-degree robbery, and one count of armed criminal action under Missouri’s felony murder rule. Did anyone in the Springfield area see activity around South Campbell and Walnut Lawn the morning of February 22?