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Thomas Wayne Hartman, 41, was shot and killed at the American Freight Furniture warehouse on U.S. Highway 64 in Memphis on May 9, 2019. Hartman, a salesman and manager at the store and a father of four known to family and friends as Tommy, was described as light-hearted and devoted to his children and mother.

According to witnesses, an argument over loading procedures with a truck driver, 53-year-old Timothy Wayne Saunders, escalated when Saunders returned to the scene and produced a black handgun, shooting Hartman in the face. Hartman died at the scene; the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide. Saunders fled in a red tractor-trailer but was arrested a short time later at the intersection of U.S. Highway 64 and Interstate 40 after witnesses identified him to police, and he was charged with first-degree murder.

Does anyone who worked at the warehouse or was in that area on May 9, 2019 recall details about the confrontation or events immediately before the shooting?