Jorian Donte Hardeway, 24, was shot and killed inside the Swing Hookah Lounge on East Seventh Street in Austin on March 14, 2021. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds at about 4:15 a.m., transported to a hospital, and pronounced dead at 4:42 a.m.

Witnesses say an argument inside the club involved Hardeway, Adriean Dewayne Benn, 22, and another man. According to those accounts, Benn used a derogatory term about Hardeway’s girlfriend, Hardeway punched Benn, and Benn then pulled a handgun, shot Hardeway, and struck him with the butt of the firearm. Video from the club and nearby area reportedly showed several people fleeing the scene; investigators obtained a warrant and Benn was arrested by the Fugitive Apprehension Unit and the U.S. Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force on March 16, 2021 and charged with first-degree murder and unlawfully carrying a weapon.

Hardeway’s family and the Austin community mourned his death. Did anyone who was at the Swing Hookah Lounge that night see something that could help fill remaining gaps in the timeline?