On August 29, 2014, 19-year-old Adam Marquez went to meet a group near Needmore Road and Trenton Road in Clarksville, Tennessee, expecting a fistfight over an ongoing dispute. Marquez arrived unarmed with friends, but the encounter turned deadly when Joshua Aretz, then 20, emerged from behind a house and fired at the group, discharging at least 13 rounds. Marquez was fatally wounded in the yard of a home on Needmore Road.

Clarksville police arrested three people in connection with the killing: Joshua Aretz, 18-year-old Clinton Hunter III, and an unnamed 17-year-old juvenile. The two adults were booked into the Montgomery County Jail and the juvenile was taken to a detention center; all three were initially charged with criminal homicide. Marquez’s mother later said one of the other two was released with no charges and the other served a few months in jail followed by probation.

Aretz later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in this case and a separate killing and received a prison term.