Orlando Montez Hall, 25, was shot and killed on July 21, 2021, in the parking lot of a Marathon gas station and market in Nashville, Tennessee. Surveillance footage from the market captured the shooting; Hall’s mother, Latasha Hall, later viewed that footage and identified the shooter as someone who had spent significant time with her son.

The attacker was identified as Robert Vernon Johnson, who also used the name Robert Vernon Griffin. Johnson told detectives he and Hall, whom he called Hatch, had grown up together and had never had prior issues. At trial Johnson claimed self-defense, saying he believed Hall was about to shoot him, but the jury convicted him of second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Johnson received an effective sentence of thirty-one years in prison: twenty-one years for the murder and a consecutive ten years for the firearm charge.

Did anyone who knew Orlando or the two men see them together at the Marathon or have additional information about what led to the confrontation?