Nathan Shelby was 19 when he was shot at an apartment on East Reynolds Road in Lexington after a drug deal gone wrong on September 3, 2019, and died of a single gunshot wound to the head at University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital on September 7, 2019. Police say the confrontation began after three men from Georgetown — Rafael Malik Brewster, Jah’Quez Crutchfield, and Moses Thompson — who had met Shelby at a restaurant to buy drugs, believed they had been shorted and went to his apartment intending to rob him. Surveillance video from the restaurant and witness statements placed the three together before they drove to the apartment; witnesses reported multiple people with handguns and a physical altercation before the fatal shot, and the suspects fled afterward.

All three were arrested and initially charged: Brewster and Crutchfield with murder and Thompson with facilitation to murder. A grand jury later indicted Brewster and Crutchfield on murder, first-degree robbery, and burglary, while Thompson was indicted on complicity to first-degree robbery and complicity to burglary with the facilitation to murder count dismissed. Does anyone have additional information about the shooting or knew Shelby and can help fill in what happened that night?