An argument over a tobacco product inside a Roanoke convenience store in spring 2023 ended in the shooting death of Steven Don Crowder. Mr. Crowder, a 31-year-old Black man, was a customer at the 7-Eleven on the 1400 block of Grandin Road S.W. On the evening of Sunday, April 16, a confrontation with the store clerk, Isaiah Carl Baldwin, escalated and Baldwin shot Mr. Crowder.

Police who arrived shortly before 9:00 p.m. found Mr. Crowder unresponsive with a critical gunshot wound; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Baldwin fled the store after the shooting, and investigators used witness statements and store surveillance to identify him as the suspect. A warrant for second-degree murder was issued in the early hours of April 17, and U.S. Marshals took Baldwin into custody later that day.

Does anyone have information about the confrontation that led to this shooting or remembered being near the 7-Eleven that night?