On November 23, 2012, 17-year-old Jordan Davis was shot and killed at a Gate Petroleum gas station in Jacksonville, Florida. Davis and three friends were sitting in a red Dodge Durango SUV around 7:30 p.m., playing loud music. A 45-year-old man, Michael David Dunn, parked next to them and asked the teenagers to turn the music down. An argument followed. After the music was turned back up at Davis’s request, Dunn retrieved a handgun from his car and fired multiple shots into the SUV, striking and killing Davis; no weapon was found in the vehicle.

Dunn was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Davis’s death and three counts of attempted second-degree murder for shooting at the other teenagers. The case drew national attention for its racial overtones and for issues raised about Florida’s stand-your-ground law. The first trial in 2014 produced a hung jury on the murder count while resulting in convictions on the attempted murder counts; the case then proceeded to a retrial later that year.