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On April 10, 2016, 24-year-old Rafael Angel ’Ralphie’ Rodriguez was fatally shot during a forced-entry robbery at his apartment in the 5200 block of West Canterbury Drive in Muncie, Indiana. Rodriguez answered his door believing his ex-girlfriend, 21-year-old Logan Jean May, was alone; she acted as a decoy while two men pushed past her and forced their way inside. A struggle and gunfire followed; Rodriguez was struck in the chest and died about two hours after being taken to IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital. Two other men in the apartment were also wounded.

The assailants targeted methamphetamine they believed Rodriguez had in the residence. Police later arrested May, who admitted she played a role and provided one of the guns, and identified her accomplices. Cody Allen Buck, Mason Lee O’Neal, and 17-year-old Marcus Earl Wilson Jr. were taken into custody; Wilson pleaded guilty to murder and received a 45-year prison sentence.

Did anyone in the Muncie area know Rodriguez or have information about the people involved that could add context to what happened?