On the night of May 15, 2024, 36-year-old Benjamin N. Thompson was found unresponsive inside a car on Jackson Street in Scranton and taken to Geisinger Community Medical Center, where he later died. The coroner ruled his death a homicide on May 16. Authorities describe the incident as a robbery staged as a marijuana transaction; surveillance footage reportedly shows Thompson meeting three men after he sent a text saying he was at the Family Dollar on Jackson Street.

Court documents allege that Rahjuan Morgan, 24, Quamir Robinson, 22, and Malachi Darden, 19, conspired to rob Thompson, and that Darden fired the fatal shot while Morgan took the marijuana from the passenger side. Robinson was arrested at his Dunmore residence; Robinson and Morgan are jailed at Lackawanna County Prison without bail on charges including criminal homicide and conspiracy. Darden is still being sought. If anyone saw Thompson that night or has information about the events on Jackson Street, please come forward.