A routine child custody exchange at a Parker-area Valero gas station ended in deadly violence on February 11, 2024. Michael David Bolan, 36, went to pick up his four-year-old daughter from his former girlfriend when an argument with the woman’s fiancé, 26-year-old Jeffrey Church, escalated into a physical fight. Witnesses reported that Church allegedly produced a handgun and that Bolan was shot in the chest while on the ground or falling.

Deputies found Bolan in a small alley beside the station; life-saving measures were started by a deputy and continued by Elizabeth Fire Rescue before Bolan was taken to Advent Health Parker, where he was pronounced dead. Church stayed at the scene, was arrested, and was charged with first-degree murder; investigators said he was cooperative. What did anyone at the gas station see unfold during that custody exchange?