In the early hours of February 4, 2016, 22-year-old Robert Franklin Baytops IV was found outside a home on Raymond Townsend Lane in Horntown, Virginia, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was taken to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, Maryland, where he died from his injuries. Baytops was a 2012 graduate of Chincoteague High School.

Investigators tied the shooting to a dispute over money. Two men—Jahad Areil Triggs, then 20, of New Church, Virginia, and Tavone Tyrell Cropper, 24, of Pocomoke City, Maryland—were arrested and initially charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony; those charges were dropped in April 2016 for insufficient evidence. A grand jury later returned indictments for premeditated murder in April 2019. The case record states that Triggs and Cropper drove from Maryland that night with a third person who was not charged, and Baytops was shot in the chest during the confrontation.

Tyvone Tyrell Cropper is identified as the triggerman and later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder; Jahad Ariel Triggs pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor accessory-after-the-fact charge. Does anyone have additional information about Baytops’ last known movements or the confrontation that night?