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On the night of Thursday, January 30, 2020, 15-year-old Thayne Joseph Wright was one of three people found shot to death inside a duplex in the 600 block of East Hackley Avenue in Des Moines. First responders discovered Thayne and two brothers, 19-year-old Devonte Swanks and 16-year-old Malachi Swanks, at about 11:20 p.m. after reports of a shooting in the area.

Police identified robbery as the motive. Investigators arrested two suspects, 19-year-old Emmanuel Totaye Jr. and 20-year-old Daishawn Gills, after witnesses placed them with the victims at different times before the killings, one witness reported seeing Gills with a long gun, Gills was found in possession of the victims’ property, and items missing from the Hackley Avenue home were recovered during a search of Totaye Jr.’s residence. A third suspect, 17-year-old Leontreal Jones, was later apprehended in Peoria, Illinois, on robbery warrants and extradited to Iowa to face first-degree murder charges in the deaths of Thayne Wright and the Swanks brothers.

Does anyone have information about Thayne, the others who were killed, or events in that neighborhood on January 30, 2020?