Reynold Ray Ray Bonner III was 14 when he was shot and killed in Birmingham, Alabama, on the evening of December 23, 2017. He was struck in the chest during an attempted robbery at Lamb’s Mini-Mart on the city’s west side and pronounced dead at Birmingham’s children’s hospital.

Bonner had gone to the mini-mart with a 16-year-old friend, Jordan Johnson, with the intention of robbing a man. Johnson was later arrested and charged with Bonner’s murder under Alabama’s Felony Murder Rule, the indictment alleging that his participation in the dangerous felony resulted in the death.

What information might clarify the sequence of events that night or explain why prosecutors applied the Felony Murder Rule in this case?