Balbir Singh Sodhi was 49 when he was murdered on September 15, 2001, in Mesa, Arizona. A Sikh American who had immigrated from India in 1988, he was arranging American flags and planting flowers in front of his gas station that afternoon. Friends and neighbors described him as gentle and quiet; he had expressed grief over the September 11 attacks and even donated to a victims fund.

Roque then drove on and fired at a Lebanese-American clerk and later shot at a house owned by an Afghan family; no one else was physically hurt.

Roque was arrested the next day and tried in August 2003. The jury found him guilty of first-degree murder and related charges on September 30, 2003.

Did anyone who knew Balbir Singh Sodhi or his business notice anything about that day or the period immediately before the shooting?