Dr. Kevin Rodgers, 61, was found fatally shot in his northwest Indianapolis home on November 20, 2017, after his wife discovered him during her lunch hour and saw signs of trauma. He was a prominent emergency medicine educator, serving as program director emeritus of the Indiana University School of Medicine residency and as president of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine. His death stunned colleagues and the local community.

Investigators concluded Dr. Rodgers apparently walked in on a burglary in progress. Neighbors reported seeing four people acting suspiciously near the house before they fled in a vehicle; neighborhood surveillance footage and other video evidence helped identify suspects and tied a 2002 Chevy Impala to one of them. Within weeks an 18-year-old, Ka’ron Bickham-Hurst, and a 15-year-old juvenile were arrested on preliminary murder and burglary charges; later, 16-year-old Devon Seats and 17-year-old Nehemiah Merriweather were charged as adults in connection with the killing.

What details about the incident or the suspects’ movements that evening might help explain how the burglary escalated to deadly violence?