On the morning of January 16, 2017, police in Lafayette, Indiana, went to an apartment in the 1600 block of Center Street after a distress call. Officers found 52-year-old John Lawrence Byler with a severe gunshot wound and he was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Detectives treating the scene gathered evidence they described as pointing to a violent encounter rather than a random act and classified the death as a homicide with robbery identified as a contributing motive.

Four days later, on January 20, 2017, the Lafayette Police Department arrested two local men, Wesley Andrew Hampton, 39, and Aarron Christopher Vance, 35. Both were charged with Murder and Robbery with a Deadly Weapon and booked into the Tippecanoe County Jail; the case was referred to the prosecutor for filing of formal charges.

Did anyone in Lafayette know Byler or have information about his movements or associates in January 2017?