On October 12, 2021, a burst of violence in Columbus, Georgia’s Beallwood area included multiple shootings and armed robberies. Lorenzo Vasquez-Lopez, a 41-year-old Hispanic/Latino man, was among those shot that night. He was rushed to a hospital but his wounds were too severe, and an emergency room physician later pronounced him dead.

Police later described the events as five armed robberies within roughly 30 minutes in the Beallwood subdivision, with three of the five victims shot. Investigators tied Vasquez-Lopez’s death to that chain of robberies and over months announced arrests and charges: Antouvious D. Pitts III was arrested October 28, 2021, on murder and related weapons and theft charges; Mikita Leonard was arrested August 12, 2022, on murder and aggravated assault charges; Derek Riley was arrested October 6, 2022, on aggravated assault and weapons charges; and William Leonard was arrested October 11, 2022, on murder and aggravated assault counts.

Did anyone in the Beallwood area at the time see or hear anything that could help fill gaps in this timeline?