On a summer evening in Louisville, Kentucky, a dispute over a can of beer ended in a fatal shooting. David Keith Dickson, 36, was shot and killed on June 12, 2022, at about 10 p.m. at the Thorntons gas station at South 1st Street and West Broadway. A security guard, 31-year-old Tavon Parrish, told police he approached Dickson after accusing him of shoplifting; an argument followed and Parrish said he shot Dickson because he believed Dickson intended to fight him. Dickson died at the scene.

Investigators later learned Parrish was legally prohibited from carrying a firearm because of a prior plea agreement on a separate charge. Parrish was arrested on a murder charge and initially pleaded not guilty. A bystander’s cell phone video—providing audio not on the station’s silent security footage—captured Dickson making threats, a development that shaped the defense’s self-defense argument. Parrish ultimately pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter and received a six-and-a-half-year prison sentence with no probation. Dickson’s family has filed a civil suit accusing Thorntons and the security firm of negligence, alleging they knew or should have known Parrish was unlicensed and unfit to carry a weapon.

Are there details from that night or witnesses who haven’t spoken publicly that could clarify what led to the confrontation?