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Clarence Chip Odell III, 47, was shot and killed during an armed robbery at a Tucson smoke shop on May 30, 1996. Odell, described as a customer, was shot in the back of the head by Jones as the robbery began. An employee, Thomas Lewis Hardman, was also killed during the same attack.

The gunmen reportedly held four employees at gunpoint, took about $1,300 from the register, and then shot the employees. The killings were part of a later-identified crime spree: two weeks after the smoke shop slayings, the same pair allegedly attacked a firefighters' union hall in Tucson and murdered four more people, bringing the total to six victims in Tucson linked to the string of robberies.

Both Jones and Nordstrom were arrested and charged in the murders; Jones was sentenced to death and executed on October 23, 2013, and Nordstrom received a death sentence and is on death row. If anyone knew Clarence Odell, where he spent his time, or saw something linked to that day, please share information with investigators.