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On a Tuesday afternoon in March 2015, 38-year-old construction worker Joshua Richey was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Kroger on Ponce de Leon Avenue in Atlanta. Richey, a father of four from Alabama, had been working on a construction job at the grocery store and was confronted about someone breaking into his work truck around 2 p.m. As he approached and slapped his hand on the truck window to get the person’s attention, the suspect inside the vehicle shot him through the glass. A co-worker, Jason Shelton, was present and held Richey after he was shot.

Investigators concluded Richey was targeted for his work truck and the equipment inside. The shooter and an accomplice fled in a black BMW with tinted windows. Police identified two suspects, Demarius Thompson and Shontavious Chestnut. Thompson was arrested March 26, 2015, after a tip about the getaway car; Chestnut was arrested April 9, 2015, in Pensacola by a U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force. A Fulton County grand jury later indicted both men on multiple counts including felony murder. Does anyone have information about Richey, his work on Ponce de Leon, or the parking lot that afternoon?