Prakash Patel, 40, was working as a clerk at the Gary Food Mart and Sunoco on Bloomfield Drive in Macon when two armed men entered the store at about 1:25 a.m. on June 18, 2016. Surveillance footage shows one assailant with a silver handgun and the other with a sawed-off shotgun; the man with the handgun jumped over the counter while the other kept the shotgun trained on the counter. During the robbery one of the men shot Patel in the chest. He was taken to the Medical Center, Navicent Health, and pronounced dead at 2:16 a.m. The robbers fled with cash and no other customers were physically harmed.

The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation. On July 16, 2016, 20-year-old Antwaine Cardelle Couch was arrested, questioned, and charged with felony murder; a grand jury later indicted him on counts including malice murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of aggravated assault, and armed robbery. The second suspect, a Black male seen in surveillance images, remained at large. A vigil was held as the community mourned and Patel’s parents in India sought visas to travel for his last rites.

Did anyone see the two men near Bloomfield Drive in the hours before the robbery or recognize the second man in the surveillance images?