On a Sunday evening in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on June 12, 2016, 31-year-old Renaldo Terez McDaniel was fatally shot around 8 p.m. in the parking lot of an O’Reilly Auto Parts store in the 400 block of North Lexington Parkway. Officers found McDaniel with an apparent gunshot wound and he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators say the confrontation followed McDaniel’s purchase of a fuse at the store. A clerk reported McDaniel speaking with occupants of a maroon SUV shortly before the vehicle left the lot and three to four gunshots were heard. Police identified and arrested 35-year-old Daryl Negel Curtis of Saint Paul; prosecutors alleged Curtis believed McDaniel had been involved in a previous non-fatal shooting of his cousin and that Curtis intended to shoot the man he spotted in the parking lot. Court documents say Curtis’s fiancée, Tameka Rae Smithson, told police Curtis told the driver, Antionette R. Johnson, to pull over so he could shoot the person.

Curtis was convicted of premeditated first-degree murder and received life without parole. Antionette R. Johnson faced murder charges and Tameka Rae Smithson pleaded guilty to aiding an offender. Anyone who knew Renaldo McDaniel or witnessed the scene that night is asked to come forward with information.