On February 3, 2020, officers in Kokomo, Indiana, responded to a shots-fired call at a South Cortland Avenue residence and found 25-year-old Lashay R. Young-Beard, a Black female, lying in the backyard with a fatal gunshot wound. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Inside the home investigators discovered a 24-year-old man bound with duct tape in a bathtub; he told police he had been held captive for 11 days and subjected to beatings, whipping, and burns from boiling water.

Investigators recovered video from a suspect’s phone showing other victims being confined, stripped, beaten, and held at gunpoint in incidents dating back to fall 2019. That evidence prompted a broader investigation into a local group accused of kidnapping and torture across multiple locations. Arrests announced so far include Troy Lamar Wilson on criminal confinement and aggravated battery charges, Uriah M. Levy charged with Young-Beard’s murder, and Steven B. Allen for aiding and inducing criminal confinement; additional arrests were reported in connection with the confinement and torture shown on the video.

What did anyone in Kokomo see or hear in late 2019 and early 2020 that could help clarify how this group operated?