In a dramatic turn of events, authorities have apprehended five individuals in connection with the attempted murders of an Indiana judge and his spouse. This incident appears to be linked to a separate legal matter scheduled to be heard in the courtroom of Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer.
The accused in the ongoing case is among those recently detained, as reported by WLS.
Law enforcement officials arrived promptly at the Meyer residence shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday, discovering Judge Steven Meyer suffering from a gunshot wound to his arm, while his wife, Kimberly Meyer, had been shot in the hip, according to an earlier report by CrimeOnline.
On Thursday, the Lafayette Police Department identified those arrested as Raylen Ferguson, 38; Thomas Moss, 43; Blake Smith, 32; Amanda Milsap, 45; and Zenada Greer, 61, through a statement on Facebook.
Ferguson and Moss face numerous charges, including attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, aggravated battery, and intimidation with a deadly weapon. Their charges also carry gang and firearm enhancements, and Moss is additionally accused of being a habitual offender.
Smith is charged with similar offenses, including attempted murder and aiding a criminal by supplying a deadly weapon. His charges also come with gang and firearm enhancements, and he too is classified as a habitual offender.
Milsap and Greer are both charged with obstruction of justice. Milsap has an additional charge of bribery, while Greer has an additional charge of assisting a criminal.
WLS reported that Moss was due to appear before Meyer on Tuesday in a case that had been pushed back several times. He is charged in that case with possession of a firearm by a violent felon, shooting into a building, and domestic battery with a deadly weapon, charges that stemmed from a 2024 incident.
Meyer had recently denied Moss’s latest attempt to postpone the trial, court documents say, and so he and his co-conspirators decided to take matter into their own hands.
Moss and several of his co-defendants are members of the Phantom Motorcycle Club, the documents say, and Moss is purportedly a “high ranking member” of the club’s Indiana chapter.
Ferguson, police say, pulled the trigger, approaching the Meyers’ home under the guise of looking for his dog. When Meyer did not open the door, he “fired multiple shots through the front door,” striking the Meyers.
The Meyers also told police that a few days earlier, a man knocked on their front door and said he had a food delivery, but again Meyer refused to open the door, saying he hadn’t ordered any food, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Surveillance footage captured that person approaching the door and revealed that he had “the same distinct pattern/cadence as Ferguson when he approached the residence immediately before the shooting on January 18, 2026.”
A witness who had been scheduled to testify against Moss reached out to police after the shooting and reported a similar incident at her door.
Just over a week before the trial was supposed to happen, she said, someone “wearing a mask, breathing heavily, and with a wobbly walk approached her residence and knocked on the door”
“The individual knocked on the door and then ultimately left the residence,” she said, after “she and her husband did not answer the door nor respond to the individual in any way.” Surveillance footage from that incident showed a person wearing a mask and with a “distinct walk/gait” that was “consistent” with the person who came to the Meyers’ door.
The court documents further say that in the previous month, Milsap tried to bribe that victim into not testifying and to “absent herself from the proceeding.”
