On the evening of June 26, 2015, 21-year-old Trenton Lamar Hill was shot outside his home on Andrea Drive in Columbus, Georgia. Hill, a Black/African American man described as an avid car and gun enthusiast, was with friends Jarrett Marshall and Jordan Day while showing firearms and preparing to work on a car. What began as playful taunting turned fatal when Marshall was handling a shotgun that discharged. Birdshot struck Hill in the hand, chest, and neck, breaking his jaw and severing arteries in his neck; he bled profusely and later died at a hospital after Day drove him there and called 911.

Initial statements by Day and Marshall claimed Hill had shot himself, but investigators determined the wounds could not have been self-inflicted. Marshall was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter. At a January 2018 trial, the defense said Marshall thought the shotgun was unloaded and was unfamiliar with firearms; the prosecution argued criminal negligence. A jury convicted Marshall of involuntary manslaughter, and in February 2018 a judge sentenced him to 10 years, with eight years to serve.

Did anyone in Columbus know the three young men or witness what happened that night?