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Jonathan Sam was 25 when he was shot and killed while working at G&T Tires & Rims on the corner of Plank Road and Erie in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The killing occurred on November 10, 2016, after Sam intervened when he witnessed a customer being robbed.

Investigators identified 21-year-old Curtis Lee Brown Jr. as the primary suspect. He was located and arrested in Dallas, Texas, about a month after the shooting and extradited to Baton Rouge on charges of first-degree murder and armed robbery. A jury trial began with jury selection in February 2018; Brown was convicted of second-degree murder and received a mandatory life sentence without the benefit of probation, parole, or suspension of sentence. He was also convicted of armed robbery and given 60 years at hard labor without benefits, though the armed robbery conviction and sentence were later set aside on appeal regarding a non-unanimous jury verdict.

Does anyone have memories of G&T Tires & Rims or the Plank Road area in 2016 that could shed more light on that afternoon?