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On the morning of September 16, 2015, 26-year-old Donald Johnson was shot multiple times and found critically wounded in the parking lot of a King Soopers near Sheridan Boulevard and Dartmouth Avenue in Denver. He was taken to Denver Health Medical Center and pronounced dead at 6:10 a.m.; the cause of death was listed as multiple gunshot wounds.

Investigators say Johnson had arranged to meet 19-year-old Nicholas Vandervoort at that location over a debt. Vandervoort, accompanied by 19-year-old Dante Rodriguez and 20-year-old Alexis Ellis, allegedly shot and killed Johnson. All three were identified and arrested; Vandervoort was taken into custody in Louisiana awaiting extradition, and the three were charged with first-degree murder.

Subsequent court developments included Ellis pleading guilty in June 2016 to a lesser charge of accessory to a crime and receiving six years of supervised probation. Rodriguez initially faced trial, which ended in a mistrial; as a second trial was about to start in April 2018 he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 48-year sentence. Vandervoort remained charged with first-degree murder.

Does anyone have information about Johnson, the meeting that led to the shooting, or contacts who might help clarify what happened that night?