On the afternoon of Mother’s Day, May 11, 2014, H.L. Billy Putnam, an 87-year-old World War II veteran, was shot and killed while seated in his vehicle in a grocery store parking lot in Meridian, Mississippi. He had just bought flowers for his wife at Vowell’s Market Place on North Hills Street when the shooting, which appeared to be the result of a robbery, occurred. Witnesses reported seeing a young man running from the store toward Shumate Road.

The Meridian Police Department investigation led to the arrest of Shon P. Byrd Jr., who was charged with capital murder, armed robbery, and three counts of credit card fraud in connection with Putnam’s death. Two others were implicated: Veronica Ferguson was charged as an accessory after the fact, and Decarlos Santez Clark was later convicted of two counts of credit card fraud and as an accessory after the fact. Byrd’s first trial in April 2017 ended in a mistrial; a second trial in August 2017 produced testimony that Putnam had been shot three times at close range. The jury deadlocked on the capital murder charge but found Byrd guilty of armed robbery and credit card fraud.

Are there witnesses or anyone with additional information about what happened that day who can help clarify the remaining questions in this case?