Brian Clendennen, 21, was shot twice and killed during a botched convenience-store robbery in Fort Worth, Texas, on February 3, 1985. The robbery was carried out by James Allridge III, then 21, and his 23-year-old brother Ronald Allridge as part of a string of area robberies.

James Allridge was convicted of Clendennen’s murder in 1987; the jury answered two special Texas capital-case questions that the crime was deliberate and that Allridge posed a probability of committing future violent acts, and sentenced him to death. In 1993 Allridge also pled guilty to four counts of aggravated robbery and received a life sentence for those counts. James Allridge was executed by lethal injection on August 26, 2004. Ronald Allridge was later sentenced to death in 1986 for the murder of Carla McMillian, killed during a Whataburger robbery the month after Clendennen’s death, and was executed in 1995.

The case prompted debate about how a defendant’s past and troubled relationships are weighed in capital sentencing. Does anyone have memories or information about Brian Clendennen, the robbery, or the events in Fort Worth in early 1985?