On May 31, 2010, Rodney Jones, a 42-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot outside the Cotton Club Bar on North Albany Avenue in Tampa, Florida. According to reports, Jones was robbed and then shot by Dontae Morris. The investigation into Jones’s death led to Morris’s arrest and charges of first-degree murder and attempted armed robbery.

Morris was later convicted in March 2013 and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for the murder, plus an additional 25 years for the attempted robbery. Jones’s killing was one of several violent incidents in Tampa during a brief period in 2010 that were linked to Morris and that deeply affected the community.

Does anyone have information about Rodney Jones’s life or the Cotton Club location around 2010 that could add context to what happened that night?