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Edwin Smith, 50, was shot to death on September 23, 2017, in the early morning around 1:40 a.m. in the parking lot outside Martini’s Feel Good Lounge at the Regency Lanes bowling alley on Real Road in Bakersfield, California. Four other people were injured in the same incident and survived. The parking lot had been the scene of previous violent incidents.

The Bakersfield Police Department and the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control conducted a joint investigation that looked at whether the bar had any role in events leading up to the shooting or could have taken steps to prevent it. In December 2017, as part of a broader operation aimed at gang-related activity in Bakersfield, four people were arrested: Skylor Billings, Daniel Willis, and Gary Pierson were charged with murder, and Gary Clayton was arrested as an accessory to murder.

Does anyone have information about the night of September 23, 2017, or about activity around Regency Lanes that could help fill gaps in the timeline?