On September 2, 2023, 31-year-old Michael Ronald Beck Jr. was fatally shot during a carjacking outside the Highlander Market on East Front Street in Monroe, Michigan. Two men, identified as Stephen Michael Jones Jr., 29, of Monroe, and Ronnie L. Oliver, 44, of Ann Arbor, had robbed the market at gunpoint and then accosted Beck and another man, Adam Helton, in a blue Ford F-150 parked in front of the store. A nearby witness was shot at but not injured; both Beck and Helton were shot and Beck died at the scene. Helton survived serious wounds and later recovered.

Jones and Oliver fled in the stolen truck, prompting a multi-state pursuit that ended when the vehicle crashed into a ditch after shots were exchanged with pursuing officers. Both suspects were captured after a standoff; Jones suffered serious injuries and was hospitalized. Jones later pleaded to multiple charges, including second-degree murder, armed robbery, carjacking, and assault with intent to murder, and received a sentence of up to 40 years. The co-defendant Ronnie Lee Oliver Jr. had a preliminary hearing scheduled for February 2025.

Does anyone have information about Beck’s last movements that afternoon or about witnesses who were nearby at the Highlander Market?