Dewayne Chronister, 50, was working as a cab driver in the predawn hours of October 17, 2016, when he picked up two fares from Mystic Food Mart on Brown Avenue in Columbus, Georgia. The two men — Dontavis Paige Screws, 20, and Devin Trashawn Durden, 21 — directed the ride to a secluded cul-de-sac in the Parkwood Mobile Home Park on Farr Road. Between about 4:00 and 5:30 a.m. Chronister was shot in the head; his cellphone and wallet were taken and the men fled. A resident found Chronister slumped over in his cab and summoned authorities.

Police identified Screws and Durden as primary suspects and later arrested them along with a third person, 21-year-old Jasmine Thomas, who was accused of helping to arrange the events that led to the killing. Screws was charged with murder, armed robbery, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and pleaded not guilty. Durden was tried and convicted of felony murder, armed robbery, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime, acquitted of malice murder, and received a life sentence with parole eligibility plus additional years for the other counts; an appeal in his case led the Supreme Court of Georgia to uphold most convictions while vacating the armed robbery count as merged with felony murder.

Did anyone in the Columbus area see Chronister’s cab or the two men near Parkwood Mobile Home Park that morning?