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Ellyaher Lanza, 23, of Dania, Florida, was shot and killed on September 7, 2015, outside a Winn-Dixie supermarket on Labor Day evening. Lanza was walking toward the store entrance with a friend when 71-year-old Jeffrey Collie, a U.S. Army veteran, confronted him, accusing him of damaging Collie’s red pickup truck. Collie, who held a concealed weapons permit, shot Lanza; Lanza was pronounced dead at Memorial Regional Hospital about 45 minutes later.

Surveillance footage and a bystander’s cellphone video were central to the case. The surveillance clips showed Lanza trying to get away when he was shot, which contradicted Collie’s claim that the gun discharged accidentally during a struggle. The bystander video captured Collie standing over Lanza’s body with what appeared to be a holstered handgun and recorded the chaotic aftermath as bystanders and a security guard reacted. Collie was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and held without bond.

If anyone witnessed the confrontation or has information about what happened outside the Winn-Dixie that night, please share what is known.