On the morning of September 10, 2018, 38-year-old Brandon Matthew Arndt was shot to death at his mobile home in Bob’s Trailer Park on Marion Road SE in Rochester, Minnesota. At about 4 a.m. someone knocked on his door; when Arndt answered, he was struck by a close-range gunshot to the face. His mother, who was in the home, heard the gunshot and her son falling and called for help. Police found Arndt deceased at the scene.

Arndt had been a helpful neighbor to an elderly, disabled woman next door, Rosetta Barnes, assisting with home maintenance, grocery shopping, and her medication. Barnes was hospitalized after a medical emergency; her grandchildren Malcolm J. Woods, Kielah S. Parsons, and Darien K. Klindworth-Woods came to suspect Arndt had harmed her by giving her illicit drugs, a belief for which investigators found no evidence. Surveillance footage shows the three leaving the hospital about an hour before the killing, stopping at a convenience store where Parsons obtained extra plastic bags. Woods covered his hands and feet with the bags, approached the trailer, and shot Arndt when he opened the door.

Authorities arrested the three grandchildren and charged them in connection with the murder. Malcolm J. Woods was charged with murder; Parsons and Klindworth-Woods were charged for their roles. Was anyone in the neighborhood aware of tensions between Arndt and Barnes family members before September 10?