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On August 14, 2016, 18-year-old Brian Quintana of Fort Wayne met two acquaintances at the Woodbridge Apartments on Washington Center Road for what he believed would be a marijuana transaction. The meeting was an apparent setup for a robbery. While Quintana sat in his vehicle, the encounter turned violent; a struggle inside the car ended when he was shot in the chest and later died of his injuries.

Police identified two suspects in the planning and execution of the crime. Kevin Hamilton, who was 17 at the time but tried as an adult, was identified as the person who fired the fatal shot. In April 2017 he was convicted and sentenced to 74 years in prison. The other suspect, Devyn Yancey, was accused of helping plan the robbery. His first trial in early 2020 produced an acquittal on the robbery charge but a deadlocked jury on murder. In August 2020 Yancey pleaded guilty to aggravated battery, a Level 3 felony; the murder charge was dismissed and he received a sentence that included time served and probation.

Did anyone who knew Brian or who was in that area on August 14, 2016, see anything that could shed more light on what happened that night?