On the evening of May 17, 2022, 26-year-old Terrence TJ Edwin Mills was lured to the 1400 block of Covert Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia, under the pretense of a drug transaction that was a setup for robbery. Police responded to reports of gunshots around 9:35 p.m. and found Mills with a single gunshot wound to the chest. He was taken to WVU Medicine Camden Clark and died shortly before midnight.

Investigators say three people conspired to rob Mills. A Vienna woman, Dezaray Lynn Roberts, then 22, admitted arranging the meeting and waiting in her 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee while two men confronted Mills. Testimony at a later trial described an alleyway confrontation in which one of the men fired, striking Mills; Mills fled but collapsed in a nearby flowerbed.

The two men identified were George Justin Smith, 21, also known as Justin Keel, of Columbus, and Donovan Tyler McCune, 23, of Parkersburg. Both were indicted by a Wood County grand jury on multiple charges including murder and first-degree robbery. If anyone knew Mills, his movements that night, or has information about the setup, please share what is known.