On January 22, 2016, 26-year-old Jefferson Heavner of Hickory, North Carolina, was shot and killed after stopping to help a driver who had spun out on an icy Catawba County road. Heavner and two others stopped to assist Marvin Jacob Lee, who was allegedly intoxicated. When the group decided to call police and one man reached into Lee’s car to take the keys from the ignition, Lee became belligerent, exited his vehicle, and opened fire. Heavner was struck multiple times, fell into the snow, and was shot again. He was pronounced dead at the scene; other helpers were not physically injured though Lee fired into their vehicles.

Lee was arrested at the scene after refusing to leave his car until a tactical team arrived and was charged with murder. Court proceedings described Heavner as a single father who often stopped to help people during snowstorms, a practice his family said began after their father died in a blizzard 13 years earlier. His mother Lena Eidson and sister Jessica spoke at the proceedings, expressing grief and, in Eidson’s words, forgiveness.

Does anyone have information about Jefferson’s last call for help or about the other Good Samaritans who stopped that night?