On the evening of June 13, 2017, 17-year-old Austin James Owen Young was shot and killed in North Minneapolis after a planned drug sale turned into an armed robbery. Young and another person had arranged to sell marijuana to two women in the Jordan neighborhood. The two women returned to Young’s SUV with three men, and during a confrontation an 18-year-old, Armajea Warren, allegedly produced a handgun and pointed it at Young. A passenger in the SUV tried to disarm the gunman, and at that moment another 18-year-old, Terry Gibson, allegedly produced a handgun and fired the shot that struck Young.

The companion in the passenger seat attempted to drive away but the SUV crashed into parked cars on the 2600 block of Knox Avenue North. Officers arriving after reports of the crash found Young unresponsive; medics pronounced him dead at the scene from a gunshot wound. Investigators later charged Warren and Gibson with second-degree murder and also charged 18-year-old Sequoia Bulson-Bratton, one of the women who had met with Young, with second-degree murder. Authorities say the robbery was premeditated and that one of the suspects targeted Young believing he had a large sum of money.

If anyone was in the Jordan neighborhood that night or has information about the robbery and the events leading up to the shooting, share what is known.