Firoz-Ul-Amin, 29, a Ph.D. student in computer science and engineering at Louisiana State University, was fatally shot while working as a clerk at Mr. Lucky’s Valero on Airline Highway in Baton Rouge in the early morning hours of a Saturday. He had been planning to return to Bangladesh in December to marry his fiancée. Friends and professors remembered him as kind, hardworking and intelligent.

About 3:30 a.m., a man entered the gas station, shot Firoz-Ul-Amin and robbed the store; deputies pronounced him dead at the scene. A GoFundMe was created by the LSU Bangladeshi Student Association to pay for funeral expenses and to transport his body back to his family in Bangladesh.

Investigators from the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office developed a tip that led them to 22-year-old Antonio D. Watts, who was brought in for questioning and, according to the sheriff’s office, confessed. Detectives said his account matched surveillance footage and other evidence. Watts was arrested and booked on first-degree murder, armed robbery, illegal use of a weapon and being a felon in possession of a firearm.

If anyone knew Firoz-Ul-Amin, his routine, or saw activity near the Airline Highway Valero that night, please share what was observed.