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On the night before Thanksgiving, November 22, 2018, 20-year-old Traveon Quandarius Smith, an African American man, was fatally shot at a Citgo gas station on North Stone Mountain Road in Lithonia, Georgia. Surveillance video captured the incident.

According to arrest warrants, the shooting was a premeditated ambush: Smith was reportedly lured out of a vehicle by one of the suspects and, once outside the car, was shot multiple times in the back and head, dying at the scene. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office identified two suspects within days and arrested 24-year-old Monty Marquies Nelson and 35-year-old Richard S. Pierre-Hayes at their homes without incident.

Both men were charged with felony murder and booked into the DeKalb County Jail. The case drew attention for its apparent premeditation and the role surveillance footage played in the investigation.

Does anyone have information about Smith’s activities that night or remember seeing him at the Citgo before the shooting?