Ajit Kumar Dwivedi, a 23-year-old exchange student from India working as a clerk at the Big Brother 2 Food Mart on Norwood Road in southeast Atlanta, was shot and killed while closing the store on the night of August 25, 2014. The store owner found his body just before midnight. Investigators determined Dwivedi had been shot multiple times during an apparent robbery; the cash register was emptied and a laptop reported missing.

Security cameras captured the assault and provided a clear image of the assailant stepping over Dwivedi’s body to take money before fleeing. Tips from the community led police to identify the suspect as Garren Hill, then 21 or 22, who had a prior car theft conviction. A warrant was issued, he was located in Detroit and extradited to Atlanta to face murder, armed robbery and firearm charges. During questioning he admitted going to the store because he needed money and confessed to shooting Dwivedi. A jury found Garren Hill guilty on all counts in January 2016 and he was sentenced to life in prison for the murder.

Did anyone who knew Ajit or worked in that neighborhood recognize anything about how stores there were secured late at night?