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Majid Hemmasi, a 59-year-old businessman from Austin of Iranian descent, was shot to death in the evening of July 26, 2017. His body was found in the parking lot of AAA Fire & Safety at 6700 Guadalupe Street with multiple gunshot wounds. Police initially treated the shooting as a targeted attack.

Investigators say the killing was part of a murder-for-hire plot. Court documents allege 41-year-old Marquis Tyrone Collins hired 40-year-old Sidney Parker to carry out the shooting. Witnesses reported Parker opened fire without speaking; Marites Jimenez, an employee at AAA Fire & Safety, was shot and injured during the incident. Parker was arrested soon after the murder; his original murder charge was later dismissed pending further investigation and he ultimately pled guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and received a 25-year sentence. Collins was arrested in Dallas after nearly two years on the run and was indicted in Travis County on capital murder while remuneration, murder, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; he was booked on a $1 million bond.

Did anyone who worked at or visited AAA Fire & Safety around that time see something that could help complete the timeline of events?