Cordarius Michael Tyrone Poppy Johnson, a 20-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on July 25, 2020, in Tallahassee, Florida. The shooting took place during a large after-hours pop-up party at the Rattler Gas Station on West Orange Avenue that drew more than 300 people. Surveillance footage shows a man identified as 22-year-old Dreshawn Barber approach Johnson in the crowded parking lot with a firearm and fire the fatal shot. Johnson collapsed and was taken to a hospital, where he died less than an hour later.

The killing grew out of an ongoing feud between Johnson and Barber. Witness cooperation was initially limited, but a public appeal by the Tallahassee Police Department eventually produced several key witnesses whose statements, together with the surveillance video, were used to identify and arrest Barber. He was charged with premeditated homicide and possession of a firearm by a delinquent adult and later indicted by a grand jury on first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

What did anyone at the Rattler Gas Station that night see that could help clarify how the confrontation began?