Delvontaye Ricquel Boyd, a 23-year-old African American man, was shot twice in the head and killed inside the kitchen of his Ocala apartment at Laurel Park Apartments on March 28, 2015, around 9:30 p.m. He lived there with his pregnant girlfriend and their 1-year-old son. Investigators later reported Boyd had been selling marijuana from the apartment to earn extra money.

The prosecution said 24-year-old Rayvond Williams went to Boyd’s apartment intending to rob him of money and marijuana and shot Boyd during the robbery. During the trial jurors reviewed recorded phone calls and testimony; witnesses identified the car used by the killer and phone records placed Williams’ phone near the scene. Despite no DNA or fingerprint evidence linking Williams to the apartment, the jury convicted him of first-degree murder with a firearm and returned a life-without-parole sentence. Boyd’s family, including his mother Marcey Gordon Jr., father Richard Boyd, his son Aiden Boyd, and fiancée Jasmine Barber, attended the proceedings.

What details about Boyd’s life or that night could help fill in gaps for readers who remember him or were in the area?