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Derek Willard, 26, was shot to death in the early hours of Halloween, October 31, 2016, in the parking lot of the Play-by-Play Sports Bar & Lounge on Cypress Creek Road in Pompano Beach, Florida. Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies found him bleeding around 12:20 a.m.; he was taken to Broward Health North and pronounced dead. An autopsy showed he had been shot at least four times.

He returned to the parking lot minutes later and parked near Gerald Carey, 26, and two other people. Carey and Dalton Carlton, 25, briefly went back inside the bar and then returned to confront Willard. Surveillance footage reportedly shows Carey firing multiple shots while Carlton ran alongside him and at one point held the gun.

Gerald Carey was charged with first-degree premeditated murder; Dalton Carlton was charged with being an accessory after the fact and possession of marijuana. Both were held without bond pending trial. Was anyone in the area that night who remembers the confrontation or saw the parking lot footage before deputies recovered it?