A parking dispute at Lenox Square mall in Atlanta on March 8, 2020, ended with the fatal shooting of 31-year-old Thuan Nguyen. Nguyen, a Vietnamese-American father visiting from Antioch, Tennessee, and his girlfriend were waiting for a space when a vehicle with four occupants took it. After a verbal exchange, both parties went into the mall and later encountered one another again in the parking lot.

Witnesses say one of the four circled behind the unarmed Nguyen and shot him in the back of the head; several described it as an execution. The four fled, crashed in the lot, and tried to run; one person was initially detained but released when not identified as the shooter. Investigators quickly identified 19-year-old Ricky James LaFargue as the primary suspect and issued a warrant. LaFargue was arrested in Brooklyn on November 2, 2020, extradited to Atlanta, tried for felony murder, and was ultimately sentenced in July 2024 to life without parole plus five years; the judge described the killing as pure evil. Another person from LaFargue’s group later pleaded guilty to making false statements to police.

Did anyone who remembers that night at Lenox Square see the vehicle or the group involved?