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Sunday afternoon two young people took their bad energy to Traveler’s Inn, their black hoodies pulled up so as to obscure their faces from cameras lurking everywhere. The ruse didn’t work, according to a probable cause affidavit written by homicide detective Scott Wilson.

Jalan Carpenter was found guilty of murder in Allen Superior Court Thursday after a three day trial. The jury believed that Carpenter, now 22, waited for John Peterson, 19, a signed basketball player for Manchester University, in the area of Vance and Reed on March 26, 2021 and ambushed Peterson at 10:28 p.m. that night.

Carpenter wasn’t charged with murder until exactly a year ago when prosecutors were able to put together missing pieces of the puzzle. An incarcerated witness came forward to report that he had played dice with some people who talked about the murder and were responsible for it. 

Flash a Rolex watch and you’ve got status. At least in the material sense, Rolex, along with Prada, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and others, cater to the nouveau riche dreams embedded in our modern culture. With that in mind, who knows what was going through the mind of Kevin Lee Evanoff who is accused of purchasing three Rolex watches from Peter Franklin Jewelers on Dupont Road with a fake credit card?