On the night of December 7, 2015, a drug deal arranged over social media ended in the fatal shooting of 45-year-old Jeffrey Alexander Capers of Trenton, Michigan. Capers had traveled to Lansing with his girlfriend to sell about 60 Xanax pills; the meeting was arranged via Facebook and phone calls with a 17-year-old from Lansing, Jquan Brinkley. Brinkley and an accomplice planned to rob Capers rather than buy the pills. Capers was found unresponsive inside a vehicle that had crashed in the 4300 block of Chadburne Drive and an autopsy determined he died from a single gunshot wound to the torso.

Police arrested two teenagers in connection with the killing. Brinkley was charged with murder, unarmed robbery, and conspiracy to commit unarmed robbery; an 18-year-old, Jamon Anthony Price, was charged with murder and two counts of unarmed robbery. At a preliminary hearing a Lansing detective testified that Brinkley had seen the Facebook post offering the pills and chose to commit a robbery. Brinkley’s case moved to Circuit Court after a challenge to the admissibility of his statements was rejected.

Did anyone in Lansing at the time see activity or travel around Chadburne Drive that night that could help clarify what happened?