In the evening of May 30, 1996, two armed men entered a Tucson smoke shop to commit a robbery. During the confrontation, Robert Glen Jones Jr. shot a customer, Clarence Odell III, in the back of the head. Thomas Hardman, who had taken refuge in a bathroom, came out and was shot in the head by Scott Douglas Nordstrom; Hardman died at the scene. Another employee was shot and survived.

The two suspects continued a violent spree that included a later attack at a firefighters’ union hall two weeks after the smoke shop killings. A key lead came when Scott Nordstrom’s brother, David, admitted he had been the getaway driver for the smoke shop robbery and identified Scott and Jones. Arrests followed in January 1997. Both Scott Nordstrom and Robert Jones Jr. were charged and convicted in the series of Tucson murders; Jones was sentenced to death and executed in October 2013, and Scott Nordstrom was sentenced to death and remains on death row.

Did anyone in Tucson know Thomas Hardman or have information about the smoke shop robbery that could add detail to what happened that night?