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Thomas Golden Payton III, a 41-year-old African American man, was shot and killed on July 27, 2011, on a street in Cambridge, Ohio. Reports say the killing grew out of marital issues: Payton and his wife were reportedly separated at the time, and the shooting was connected to that domestic triangle.

Pet Tompkins, a 30-year-old African American who was on parole from the Ohio penitentiary where he had served a sentence for sodomy, allegedly shot Payton with a shotgun. After the shooting Tompkins drove home and was arrested; he pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in municipal court and was being held pending grand jury action.

The community reacted strongly to the killing, and authorities conducted an investigation and prepared the case for the grand jury. Does anyone have information about Payton, Tompkins, or the events in Cambridge that night?