Police have arrested five people for the attempted murders of an Indiana judge and his wife earlier this week, apparently connected with a separate criminal case that was about to go to trial in Tippecanoe Superior Court Judge Steven Meyer’s courtroom.
The defendant in that case is one of the five people arrested, WLS reports.
Police responded to the Meyer home shortly after 2 p.m. on Sunday and found Steven Meyer with a gunshot wound to the arm and Kimberly Meyer with a wound to the hip, CrimeOnline previously reported.
Lafayette Police announced the arrests on Thursday of Raylen Ferguson, 38; Thomas Moss, 43; Blake Smith, 32; Amanda Milsap, 45; and Zenada Greer, 61.
Ferguson and Moss are charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, aggravated battery, battery resulting in serious injury, battery by means of a deadly weapon, intimidation with a deadly weapon, and attempted obstruction of justice. Both have gang and firearm enhancements, while Moss is also charged with being a habitual offender.
Smith is charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to murder, aggravated battery, battery by means of a deadly weapon, intimidation with a deadly weapon, and assisting a criminal by providing a deadly weapon. His charges also have gang and firearm enhancements, and he is charged 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.”
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[Featured image: Raylen Ferguson, Thomas Moore, Blake Smith, and Amanda Milsap/Lexington-Fayette Urban County Division of Community Corrections and Zenada Greer/Tippecanoe County Jail]
