Just after midnight on November 26, 2021, a shooting on US Hwy 49 West in West Helena, Arkansas, left two young men dead. At about 12:22 a.m., officers found 18-year-old Avin Redmon and 21-year-old Eddie Trancy inside a 2017 Chevrolet Malibu, each suffering multiple gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at 1:20 a.m.

Investigators later connected 31-year-old Michael Rogers to the double homicide. Rogers was arrested on December 4, 2021, and charged in connection with the deaths; he was held on $750,000 bond. The sequence of events in those early morning hours and what led up to the shooting remain central to the investigation.

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