Robert Robbie Rome Lee Dawson Jr. was 26 when he was shot and killed in the late hours of May 27, 2014, in an alley behind his father’s residence in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. He had been sitting there to connect his phone to a nearby wireless internet signal when Bobby Derrick Gamble approached and shot him in the chest during what prosecutors described as a robbery for $15 to $20. Gamble fled the scene and was later identified as the primary suspect.

Gamble, 31 at the time of the killing, was arrested and the case moved through the courts. In June 2016 he entered a guilty plea to open murder; a bench proceeding followed in which Judge Timothy Hicks considered whether the killing was first-degree premeditated murder, first-degree felony murder, second-degree murder, or manslaughter. The court found Gamble guilty of first-degree murder and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Does anyone have memories of Dawson or information about that evening that could add context to what happened?