Jared Banta, 21, was killed after being lured to the Country Hills Apartments parking lot on Schenkel Lane in Frankfort, Kentucky, on the night of December 26, 2016. Employed as an assistant manager at a Pizza Hut, Banta went to sell what he believed was marijuana and was ambushed; his body was found the next morning in his car with a fatal gunshot wound to the back.

Investigators say five young people orchestrated the setup to steal money for a shopping trip. Victorya Paige Young, Brooke Kennedy, and Cameron Montgomery used their acquaintance with Banta to arrange the meeting at a location chosen for its lack of security cameras. Krishaun Mays, 17 at the time, and Kedrick Burton were to carry out the robbery; Mays fired the single shot that killed Banta. Prosecutors relied on text messages and a graphic audio recording recovered from one defendant’s phone to reconstruct the crime.

All five defendants were arrested and ultimately entered guilty pleas to various charges, including murder, complicity to murder, robbery, manslaughter and related counts; sentences and dispositions varied by defendant. Did anyone who knew Jared or who lived near Country Hills Apartments in late December 2016 see or hear anything that night?