Timothy Turner, 29, was shot and killed in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the early hours of April 22, 1990, after leaving a bar on Martin Luther King Drive. Turner, a truck driver from Jackson, Tennessee, was getting into a car with friends William Hammond and Kevin Kendricks around 3:00 a.m. when an African American male about 6 feet 1 inch began firing a small-caliber handgun in the parking lot and reportedly bragged about other weapons.

As the three tried to leave, the man opened fire on their vehicle with what police believe included a .45-caliber handgun. Turner was struck and killed; Kendricks, 26 at the time, was wounded and survived; Hammond, 25, was unharmed and drove toward a hospital, flagging down police. Another man, 32-year-old Jerry Wayne Geeter, was also shot nearby, though his connection to Turner’s killing was unclear. Investigators recovered 17 shell casings from two different weapons, and a suspect was chased through a housing project later that afternoon but escaped. No arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved.