Hardip Singh, a 46-year-old Indian American clerk from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was killed on the evening of June 22, 2015, while working at the Big Red convenience store at 1802 E. Harding Avenue. Surveillance footage shows a bronze-colored four-door Cadillac arrive shortly before 8:30 p.m.; the passenger, Sha’Quille Carter, went inside and returned to the car, then driver Lorenzo Lamar Kellon exited wearing a silver mask and black hood and armed with a pistol. Video and trial evidence show Kellon firing three times at Singh, striking him in the head, grazing his cheek and hitting his back; Singh collapsed and died outside the store. Kellon then entered, stole about $550 from the register and fled with Carter in the Cadillac.

Officers arrested Kellon within a day after spotting the vehicle; he confessed during questioning and led investigators toward the murder weapon. Carter was captured the following morning and was later prosecuted as Kellon’s accomplice. Kellon was convicted in September 2016 of capital murder and aggravated robbery and received life without parole plus additional consecutive terms; Carter later pleaded to reduced charges and received a concurrent 20-year term. Did anyone who knew Hardip Singh or who worked at that store notice anything unusual in the days before June 22, 2015?