Robbins was arrested at a Day's Inn Motel in Merrillville, Ind., according to an archived story in the Indiana Post-Tribune, after fleeing police. He was convicted of shooting Richard Melton, with whom he'd gotten into an altercation at a party after Melton accompanied his mother to a funeral. Robbins shot Melton in the street at about 1:30 a.m. on Mother's Day, authorities said.