Court records: Facebook gun-sale meetup at Bean Blossom Dollar General led to robbery, shooting

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Trey A. Boyd booking photo – Courtesy of Brown County Jail

Staff report

NASHVILLE, Ind. – December 17, 2025

A private party handgun sale at the Dollar General in Bean Blossom, Indiana, turned into a robbery after investigators say the prospective buyer, Trey A. Boyd, allegedly ran off with the firearm, prompting a confrontation behind the store and a shootout that sent two people to the hospital.

Boyd, another man, and a juvenile have been charged.

According to affidavits for probable cause filed in Brown County Circuit Court, officers were dispatched to the Dollar General at about 2:50 p.m. Dec. 13 after a shooting was reported.

Bean Blossom is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Brown County, Indiana.

Deputies found two people had been shot: The gun seller, who was shot in the stomach area, and Corbyn Harris, who was shot in the legs and back, the court records say. A third person at the scene, the gun seller’s little brother, was found with a handgun and was transported to a hospital for hypothermia, according to the affidavits. Boyd and Harris also had a juvenile with them, whose name isn’t being released due to their age.

Investigators say the gun seller told police he had connected with a person using the name “Dayvon Bennett” through a Facebook group for selling guns and arranged to sell a handgun in Brown County. The seller told police he traveled from Anderson with his brother and met two men in the Dollar General parking lot, where he showed them the handgun, which he said was unloaded, the affidavits say. The affidavits say one of the men asked if he would accept payment via Cash App, and he declined. At that point, the seller told investigators the man ran off with the gun. The seller chased Boyd behind the store, where a second person was waiting and pointed a gun at the seller, according to the court records. The seller told police he was shot immediately and returned fire from the ground, striking the shooter, later identified as Harris, the affidavits say.

Investigators wrote that two men (one identified as Boyd) fled. Deputies followed tracks in the snow that led from the area toward the Bean Blossom Trailer Court, where Boyd was later located, the affidavits state. A detective also reported locating a Facebook account using the “Dayvon Bennett” name that, according to the affidavit, was tied to Boyd through its page URL. Boyd was detained and interviewed, and he admitted arranging the meetup and going to Dollar General with Harris and another person, according to the court records.

According to the PC, a search warrant granted access to messages on three suspects’ phones. A message on Boyd’s phone allegedly he was planning on “hitting a lick,” slang for a robbery. Then, according to the PC, Boyd, in a jail phone call, “admits to ‘fucking up’ and stated, ‘Something went wrong, king of a robbery yeah.’”

Investigators say Boyd told police Harris was the only one who knew what was going to happen, and that Boyd walked off with the gun after asking about Cash App. The handgun was later recovered from Boyd’s residence, the affidavits say.

Court documents describe the handgun that was being sold as a Smith and Wesson Shield 9mm.

The affidavits state that surveillance video obtained from a nearby source showed three individuals approaching the store, with one going behind the building while the other two went to the front, and that the footage corroborated the seller’s account.

Both the gun seller and Harris were initially taken to Johnson Memorial Hospital and later transferred to Methodist for serious medical attention, according to the affidavits. Investigators wrote they had probable cause to believe Boyd and Harris committed robbery, a Level 2 felony under Indiana law.

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