Robert Thompson, 35, was fatally shot in a drive-by style attack on October 26, 2019, on a road in Preston, Connecticut. The shooting happened about 1:30 a.m. near the intersection of Route 12 and Route 2A after a motorist called 911 reporting gunfire. Thompson, a union carpenter and weightlifter known as Robbie T, was a passenger in a vehicle that was escorted by Ledyard Police to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators linked the killing to an earlier altercation that evening at Mohegan Sun Casino. Within days authorities arrested 25-year-old Francis L. Giannelli of Glastonbury on charges of murder, criminal use of a weapon, and carrying a pistol without a permit; court papers state Giannelli said he fired six times after believing a driver in the other car reached for a weapon, though he admitted he never saw a gun. A second person, 42-year-old Michael Soto, was arrested on charges of risk of injury to a minor and failing to secure a weapon.

Thompson’s family and friends remembered him as loyal and protective. Does anyone have information about the events at the casino that evening or the moments leading up to the shooting?