Rodney Rod Benton, 34, was shot and killed in southwest Atlanta in June 2016 after a dispute that began over an EBT card. The argument started when Benton’s girlfriend tried to use her brother’s EBT card for rent and found the PIN had been changed; that led to a phone argument between her and her brother, Nathaniel Mathis.

Later the same day, Benton and his girlfriend were sitting in their SUV on Polar Rock Road when Mathis approached the vehicle, yelled and fired a handgun eight times, striking Benton. Mathis then fled to a nearby park and engaged in a standoff with police that lasted several hours; during the standoff he held a .40 caliber pistol to his head and made suicidal threats before officers subdued and arrested him.

A witness at the park said Mathis expressed remorse and asked that his sister be told he had just snapped and didn’t mean for it to happen. What details about motive or the events leading up to the shooting remain unclear to readers who followed the case at the time? Please share any information or memories.