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Derick Garner was 44 when he was shot and killed after a dispute at OD’s Plantation, a bar at 16th and Sycamore Streets in Harrisburg, on December 29, 2016. Prosecutors say an argument with another patron, Eric King, escalated when King produced a 9mm handgun and fired at Garner across a pool table. Wounded, Garner left the bar; surveillance video recorded King getting into a vehicle and firing four more shots at Garner as the vehicle drove away. Garner was struck in the face and abdomen and later died at Hershey Medical Center.

Eric King was arrested and tried for the killing. The defense argued King suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder after being shot outside the bar in 2008 and claimed he acted in self-defense. The prosecution relied on the surveillance footage; after a five-day trial and roughly seven hours of deliberation, a Dauphin County jury convicted King of first-degree murder. The conviction carries a mandatory life sentence.

Does anyone have additional information about the night at OD’s Plantation or knew Derick Garner?