On November 30, 2022, 25-year-old Jarod C. Rogers arranged to meet a 17-year-old, Kyleigh Guzman, in the 11000 block of Johnson Drive in Shawnee, Kansas, under the pretense of selling marijuana. According to investigators, the meeting had been set up by a group of five teenagers who conspired by text to rob Rogers; Guzman was to pay via a cash app, payment that never arrived.

Police were dispatched about 6:40 p.m. to check on a person’s welfare and found Rogers in a parking lot with a gunshot wound. He was taken to a nearby hospital in critical condition and died on December 2, 2022. Investigators say two of the teens brought a large firearm to the encounter, three who were waiting in a car drove off after a gunshot, and the victim’s black Dodge Ram was later recovered in Missouri, believed stolen by two suspects after the shooting.

Five suspects were taken into custody: four 17-year-olds named Sabrina Clark, Kyleigh Guzman, Roger Hernandez, and Fernando Gonzalez-Prado, and an 18-year-old named Fernando Reyes-Lara. They were charged with crimes including first-degree murder, felony murder, aggravated robbery, and conspiracy to commit robbery; prosecutors moved to try the juvenile suspects as adults. If anyone knew Jarod or witnessed the November 30 meeting or the vehicle’s movements, please share information with investigators.