Janak Patel was working as the clerk at a Chevron on Elberta Road in Warner Robins, Georgia, the night of January 13, 2018, when an armed robbery at the store turned deadly just before 9 p.m. Emergency crews attempted to save him, but he died of his injuries; reporting noted his death was one of two homicides in the city that night, occurring less than a mile from an earlier shooting.

Investigators later focused on Daniel Bruce Franz II. A Houston County grand jury indicted Franz in 2019 on charges tied to Patel’s death, including malice murder, felony murder, and armed robbery, and prosecutors filed notice they intended to seek the death penalty in the Patel and Parker Moore cases. Reporting described the accusation that Patel was shot in the head during the robbery.

Public coverage through 2019 records Franz’s arrest, indictment, and capital prosecution efforts but does not establish a final conviction in Patel’s killing. Does anyone have information about Patel, his shift that night, or the events at the Chevron?