On the evening of June 27, 1990, 59-year-old service station manager Billy Lynn was shot and killed during an attempted armed robbery at the Premium Oil station in Muscogee, Georgia. According to accounts from two of the suspects, Lynn was confronted by a group who believed he carried large sums of money. Ward Anthony Brockman, identified as the triggerman, shot Lynn once in the abdomen; Lynn died of the wound despite complying with the robbers.

The four-man crime spree began the night before in a Phenix City, Alabama, apartment, where Brockman, Quenton Lewis, Larry Moore, and Ronald Mathis planned a series of armed robberies to raise bail money. Brockman was armed with a .38 revolver and driving a stolen black Chevrolet Camaro; the group later acquired a .22 pistol and a sawed-off shotgun. After leaving Lynn fatally wounded, the men fled but were captured following a high-speed chase that ended back in Phenix City.

Brockman was convicted of felony murder and criminal attempt to commit armed robbery; a Muscogee County jury recommended the death penalty, and that sentence was imposed. Lewis took a plea deal and, after testifying against Brockman, had the murder charge reduced to voluntary manslaughter with a recommended sentence of thirty years, twenty to be served. The record does not detail charges or convictions for Moore and Mathis. If anyone knew Billy Lynn or has information about the robbery, what can be shared?