Vettia Rochem, 43, moved to Montgomery, Alabama, with her daughter after losing nearly everything in a tornado and took a job as night manager at a local Taco Bell. On the night of March 10, 2014, she was ambushed as she left the restaurant at the end of her shift, beaten with a tire iron and a car jack, then shot multiple times. Her body was found behind the restaurant the next morning by a cleaning crew.

Investigators tied the robbery-homicide to three employees: 19-year-olds Kenneth Temple and Renauldous Chisholm, and Gacolby Green. The motive was robbery; Rochem handled the restaurant’s bank deposits. Legal proceedings followed: one suspect sought youthful offender status and was denied, and by November 2018 the final suspect entered a guilty plea and received a life sentence.