On June 16, 2015, DeAngelo Turner, 25, was shot and killed in broad daylight at a BP station on Grand River Avenue in Detroit. The attack unfolded in front of bystanders, including children. Surveillance footage captured a man walking into the station with the apparent intent to kill; investigators identified him from that footage as 35-year-old Timothy Wright. A Detroit Police Homicide detective characterized Wright’s actions as a hunt, and Wright disappeared from the scene, prompting an intensive manhunt while authorities warned he was armed and dangerous.

Wright remained at large for months while his image appeared on news broadcasts and wanted posters; Crime Stoppers offered a cash reward. He was later arrested, tried, and convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, felon in possession of a firearm, and possessing a firearm during a felony, and received life in prison without parole. DeAngelo Turner’s mother, Valerie Wilks, made public appeals for information after his killing.