On the evening of February 17, 2018, 30-year-old Ryan Thornton was shot and later died after an exchange with an Uber Eats driver outside his condominium in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. Thornton, a recent Morehouse College political science graduate who had just started a new job, and his fiancée had ordered a meal that was delivered by Robert Bivines in a white Volkswagen. Surveillance footage shows Thornton retrieving the food, walking away, then returning twice to the vehicle; during the second approach Bivines fired multiple times, striking Thornton. Thornton called his fiancée after being wounded and was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

Bivines turned himself in days later and was charged with murder. His defense claimed self-defense, saying Thornton had been aggressive and appeared to reach for a weapon; prosecutors said Thornton was unarmed and that some shots were fired after he had fallen. In November 2018 a jury convicted Bivines of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and weapons possession; he received life plus five years. Thornton’s family later sued Uber, alleging his killer’s prior battery conviction should have disqualified him from working as a delivery driver.

Does anyone have information about the moments captured on the surveillance footage or about this delivery that could shed more light on what happened?