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Ryan Keith Mumaw, 21, of Charles Town, West Virginia, was killed on July 19, 2016, after an arranged marijuana transaction in the Tuscawilla Hills subdivision escalated into a planned robbery. Ryan, a Washington High School graduate who studied business at West Virginia University and worked at Locust Hill Golf Course, was riding as a passenger in a Toyota 4Runner driven by his brother Dylan when a Ford Focus pulled alongside. Two armed passengers exited the Ford and moved to opposite sides of the 4Runner; the passenger-side assailant opened fire as Dylan tried to flee. Ryan was struck in the chest and died before reaching the hospital.

Investigators traced the Ford’s occupants to a group that included Rakeem Deqwan Newman, Malakye Emerson Boyd and Tayjuhn Coble; Braden Fitzgerald, who had arranged the meeting, later testified that Newman proposed stealing the marijuana and that the plan was to rob the brothers. Prosecutors proceeded under a felony-murder theory and indicted Newman, Boyd and Coble in January 2017; Fitzgerald, then a juvenile, pleaded guilty to first-degree armed robbery in July 2017 and agreed to testify. Coble pleaded no contest to first-degree robbery and also cooperated, receiving a prison sentence at his October 2017 sentencing.

Did anyone in the Tuscawilla Hills area see the Ford Focus or the 4Runner on the afternoon of July 19, 2016?