On a late Thursday evening in March 2018, 17-year-old Dorian Harris entered the Top Stop Shop convenience store in Memphis and left with a beer without paying. The store clerk, 28-year-old Anwar Ghazali, armed with a handgun, followed him outside and fired several shots as Dorian walked away. Ghazali later returned to the store and told a witness he thought he had shot the teenager but did not call the police.

Dorian’s body was found on Saturday afternoon, March 31, 2018, next to a home not far from the convenience store. Police determined he had died from a gunshot wound to his thigh and that he was wearing the same clothes seen the night he left the store. The discovery prompted a homicide investigation that tied the shooting back to the Top Stop Shop incident.

Authorities arrested Anwar Ghazali and charged him initially with first-degree murder. At trial the defense said Ghazali had fired to scare Dorian, while prosecutors argued he had acted as the judge and executioner over a $2 beer. A Shelby County jury convicted Ghazali of second-degree murder in August 2019. Did anyone who knew Dorian or saw him in that neighborhood in late March 2018 notice anything unusual?