On the morning of June 4, 2019, 28-year-old Ronald Trey Peters was walking from his Stone Mountain home to a nearby MARTA station when a maroon truck pulled up on Orchard Circle. Three people in the vehicle got out; two masked men demanded Peters’ backpack and reportedly used an anti-gay slur. Peters refused and was shot in the chest and neck. After he fell, one of the attackers grabbed his bag and shot him again before the trio fled in the truck. A neighbor who witnessed the attack called 911 and tried to help, but Peters died at a local hospital.

DeKalb County investigators initially treated the killing as potentially hate-motivated. The truck was later linked to a carjacking in Clayton County the day before, and detectives tracked use of Peters’ debit card to a Lithonia gas station; surveillance from that station and a nearby Walmart captured images of suspects. Three people were arrested in connection with the case; one of the arrestees was alleged to be the gunman and another testified about who drove and who exited the vehicle with weapons.

Are there readers who remember seeing a maroon four-door truck or unfamiliar people in the Orchard Circle area around June 3–4, 2019?