David Alan Marsh was 62 when he was shot during a robbery at the Lee Mart Gas and Grocery in Murray, Utah, in the early morning of March 18, 2015. Marsh had worked the shift at that store for more than two decades and was the lone employee on duty shortly after 5:30 a.m. when two masked men entered, brandished a weapon, and demanded money. Surveillance footage captured the incident. As the pair fled, one of them turned and fired at Marsh; he was found wounded by two customers, taken to a hospital in critical condition, and died after several days in intensive care.

Investigators identified three suspects: a getaway driver, Martin Castillo, and the two men who entered the store, Alexis Alan Garcia and Juan Andres Zalazar. Authorities say that after Marsh threw the empty cash register tray at the fleeing men, Zalazar turned and shot him. In the months after the killing, Castillo pleaded guilty to aggravated robbery in exchange for testifying against the others, and Zalazar pleaded guilty to manslaughter and aggravated robbery; Garcia was scheduled to stand trial. The community held a vigil and organized a fund to help with Marsh’s funeral and medical expenses.