On August 29, 2018, around 2 a.m., 20-year-old Marquaire Ravon Collins, a Black/African American male, was shot during a meeting in front of a home on Redlands Circle in a west valley neighborhood of Las Vegas. Collins had arranged to meet two other individuals; the meeting turned into an exchange of gunfire. Officers responding to reports of shots found Collins with multiple gunshot wounds and a handgun in his possession. He was transported to University Medical Center and pronounced dead. The Clark County coroner ruled the death a homicide from multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators identified and arrested Jaylon Carter and Bennie Sampson and charged them with Collins’ murder. After obtaining counsel, both men told police the encounter began as a drug transaction that escalated into an attempted robbery and an exchange of gunfire; investigators found evidence that Collins had fired his weapon at least twice. Prosecutors concluded they could not disprove the defendants’ claims of self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt, and the murder charges were dismissed on September 6, 2018.

Are there readers who knew Collins or witnessed the events on Redlands Circle who can share information about that night?