On the night of October 20, 2014, 22-year-old Gordon Schaffer was working at the Papa John’s in Columbia, Tennessee, when two people entered to rob the restaurant. Schaffer complied with their demands but was shot and later airlifted to Vanderbilt Medical Center, where he died. He was able to give police a description of his assailants before he succumbed to his wounds.

Columbia Police identified two teenage suspects: 17-year-old Darious Fitzpatrick and 16-year-old Kavoyeh Pye. Surveillance footage from the restaurant captured the robbery and shooting. Fitzpatrick was arrested, transferred from juvenile to adult court, tried, and convicted of first-degree felony murder, second-degree murder, and especially aggravated robbery. He received life plus twenty years; testimony at sentencing cited prior juvenile adjudications for aggravated burglary and aggravated robbery and an admission that the motive was to obtain more drug money. Pye was also charged in connection with the incident.

If anyone knew Gordon, the restaurant that night, or has information about what led to the robbery, please share what is known.