On November 21, 2020, a planned marijuana transaction at the Maple Grove trailer park in Jasper, Indiana, ended in a deadly shootout. Twenty-one-year-old Tre Lee Carnahan approached the seller’s vehicle armed, intending to rob the seller rather than complete the purchase. During the confrontation both Carnahan and the seller, 19-year-old Andres W.C. Lopez of Owensboro, Kentucky, were shot in the chest. Lopez was found and pronounced dead on a nearby street; Carnahan was taken by private vehicle to a local hospital and died shortly after arrival.

Investigators concluded the robbery was premeditated and involved accomplices who helped arrange the encounter, provided a handgun to Carnahan, and planned a distraction by throwing a brick at the seller’s car. In February 2022 two men were arrested on charges including aiding armed robbery, obstruction, false informing and related counts; authorities allege one acted as a lookout and another owned the firearm that was loaned for the robbery.

What details about the planning or the people involved might help explain how the meeting was set up?