Montel L. Robinson, known as Smokey, was 24 and working as a dietary aide at Arlington Place when he was killed in Indianapolis on July 1, 2018. Officers responding to reports of a shooting on the northeast side found Robinson in the 5600 block of Brendon Way Parkway with multiple gunshot wounds; he was pronounced dead at the scene. He left behind his parents, George Sweeney and Melissa Robinson, and his young son Jordan.

Homicide detectives and federal authorities investigated the slaying. A significant development came when the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, with the U.S. Marshals Task Force, arrested 23-year-old Steven Gaston on a preliminary murder charge in connection with the shooting. What does anyone who knew Montel or who was in that neighborhood that night remember about the events leading up to the shooting?