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Montaser Zarrouq, 32, was shot and killed outside Jim and Lu’s Grocery on Government Street in Baton Rouge on an evening in early July 2012. Surveillance shows him stepping out of the 24-hour store just after 8 p.m.; a lone bicyclist crossed 17th Street, rode up, and fired four shots into Zarrouq’s car. Zarrouq stumbled back into the store and collapsed a few steps inside.

Family described Zarrouq as a humble man supporting five children and working long shifts at the neighborhood shop. Detectives said there was no clear motive and no identified suspect; the shooting did not appear to be a robbery. Relatives noted a possible connection to a separate surveillance-captured theft two days earlier, when a teenager reportedly stole the store owner’s gun from beneath the register, and hoped ballistic matches might provide a lead.

Does anyone recognize the bicyclist or have information about the stolen firearm that could help the investigation?