On January 11, 2016, 18-year-old Grant Watkins was shot near Blackwell’s Pond Park in Carson City. A friend transported him to Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the stomach; he was flown to Renown Medical Center in Reno and pronounced dead at 2:09 a.m.
Investigators concluded the shooting occurred during a planned robbery intended to steal about three ounces of marijuana. Detectives say a group of young men arranged the robbery and that a confrontation ended with Watkins being fatally shot. A SWAT team arrested brothers Jesus Garcia-Manriquez, 18, and Allen Garcia-Manriquez, 19, at an East Fifth Street apartment the same day; officers reported finding about $10,000 in cash and drug paraphernalia there.
Detectives later identified Reed Skenandore, then 21, as the person who fired the fatal shot and charged him with first-degree murder. Other men charged in connection with the plot included Jacob Huttman, 19, Jonathan Skenandore, 18, Keenan Michael Blackmore, 19, and Daniel Lewis Lease, 20, with various counts from robbery and conspiracy to accessory and murder. Several of the accused entered guilty pleas to charges including second-degree murder and conspiracy to commit robbery.
Does anyone have information about Watkins’s movements that night or knew him and can help clarify what happened?