In the fall of 2017 Meridian lost a well-known small-business owner. Robert Joseph Trout, 52, operator of Frank’s Drive-In on 5th Street and known to friends as Fish, was shot and killed during an armed robbery at his sports bar on the evening of Monday, October 16, 2017. Three other people at the bar were wounded in the same incident.

Investigators described the attack as what appeared to be a planned robbery that went horribly wrong. Two suspects were later traced out of state and arrested on November 21, 2017, in Killeen, Texas: Donshay Meundre Sanders, 20, and Dystiny Denice Davis, 25. They were served with warrants for capital murder, armed robbery and three counts of attempted murder; firearms were recovered, including one confirmed stolen from the Mississippi scene.

If anyone was at Frank’s Drive-In that night or has information about the robbery, please share what is known with authorities.