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Megan was raised in a local suburb of Minneapolis.  She was a good student, an athlete and graduated high school with 14 college credits.   Megan has always had a heart for persons with special needs and worked as a PCA for a few local families caring for both children with autism and seniors with dementia. During Megan’s junior year she was raped and after this occurred Megan began partying and abusing substances to help numb what she had been through.

On the night of the tragic event, Megan having been 19 for a few weeks, was with her best friend Briana. They had been visiting their friend, who also sold them drugs, and his girlfriend frequently, using drugs and hanging out. One evening before the tragedy Briana had a bottle of prescription medication disappear from her purse.  After reaching out several times to ask for the prescription and being denied the girls decided they should go and take them back.  

During this time a friend of the girls and the ex-roommate of the young drug dealer reached out after seeing social media posts of them at the apartment.  He and his friend were going to get some belongings the young man had stolen from him as well.  They decided to go together to get back their stuff.  The boys decided to bring in some “guys” to help.  When they got to the apartment building the guys who knew the girls sent them in with the two men the girls did not know.  In the stairwell of the apartment building, these two men put on rubber gloves, put up their hoods and one of the men pulled out a gun and told the girls that if either girl were to screw anything up that he would not have a problem killing them both.   Upon entering the apartment, the two men beat the young man and the situation became completely out of control and the girls tried to leave and were locked into the apartment by the man with the gun.  Then one of the two men shot and killed the young man.  The girls fled for their lives at the first opportunity.