On the evening of August 23, 2020, in a Lakewood, Colorado Walmart parking lot, 18-year-old Damian Michael Wikoff and his 17-year-old brother, Dillon Wikoff, were fatally shot at about 8:00 p.m. The brothers had arranged to sell a homemade ghost gun assembled from an online kit and to trade for another firearm; relatives said they often met in that parking lot during work breaks. What began as a transaction became a planned robbery by a group of juveniles, and both brothers were shot and later died at local hospitals.

Lakewood Police said the attack was not random. The investigation resulted in arrests of four juveniles. Michael Anthony Mendoza, 17 at the time, and Marqueil Deandre Banks, 16 at the time, were charged as adults. Authorities said Mendoza recruited the group and Banks shot both brothers. Banks was convicted by a jury of two counts of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery and received life with parole possible after 40 years. Mendoza pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery and manslaughter and was sentenced to 20.5 years. The remaining two teens, both 15 at the time, pleaded to lesser charges and received juvenile dispositions.

Does anyone have information about the meeting in that parking lot or about the assembled ghost gun?