On July 31, 2023, at about 2:55 p.m., 26-year-old Jonathan Pettway was fatally shot inside a convenience store at the Sunoco gas station at 2111 San Jacinto Street in Houston. A physical altercation inside the store escalated when a man produced a firearm and fired multiple rounds. Pettway and an 18-year-old male were hit; Pettway was taken to Ben Taub General Hospital and pronounced dead, while the 18-year-old was treated at the scene and released.

Investigators identified 24-year-old Jahdari Hatton as the shooter and sought arrest warrants charging him with murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Hatton remained at large for several weeks before being apprehended on August 21, 2023, and booked into the Harris County Jail to await trial on the charges related to Pettway’s killing and the other victim’s injury.

Was anyone in the area that afternoon able to see what led to the altercation inside the store or who else might have witnessed it?