Nineteen-year-old Treshawn Glass was found shot to death on the evening of Saturday, March 25, 2017, inside an apartment building on West Oak Street in Old Louisville. Investigators concluded Glass, 27-year-old Melvin Simpson and another person had attempted to rob a man at the complex. During the robbery the intended victim fought back and fired the shot that killed Glass.

Despite the victim being the person who fired the fatal shot, authorities charged Melvin Simpson with murder, along with robbery and terroristic threatening, on the theory that the robbery precipitated Glass’s death and made Simpson legally responsible as a co-conspirator. Simpson pleaded not guilty and a judge set bond at $500,000.

The case raises the question of criminal liability for outcomes that co-conspirators did not directly cause. If anyone knew Treshawn, was at the apartment building that night, or has information about the robbery, please share what is known.