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Darel Devonte Mims, 23, was killed on January 11, 2016, in a home invasion at his apartment on Burgess Road in Pensacola. Two masked men forced their way into the unit at gunpoint and ordered residents to lie on the floor. Mims was asleep in a rear bedroom when an intruder entered and shot him in the head with a shotgun at close range.

Investigators identified three suspects: David Lee Calland, Bryan Marquis Simmons, and Jezzamay Arline Atherton. Witnesses in the apartment named Calland and Simmons as the intruders, and phone records placed Calland at the scene. Prosecutors said the robbery and killing began during a drug transaction; Simmons had arranged to buy marijuana from one of the residents. Atherton, who drove the getaway vehicle, later implicated Calland as the shooter. Simmons and Atherton pleaded to lesser charges and agreed to testify for the prosecution.

Does anyone have information about the events that night or knew Darel Mims that could help fill gaps in the timeline?