On the evening of October 11, 2021, 38-year-old Gary McMiller was shot in the parking lot of the McDonald’s on Hardy Road in Vinton, Virginia, after a planned marijuana purchase escalated into an attempted robbery. McMiller was taken to a local hospital and later died of his injuries, converting the initial malicious wounding investigation into a homicide case.

Police identified a silver sedan that fled the scene. A 15-year-old, Jeremiah Unique Pannell, was arrested as the driver; investigators say he drove two other individuals to meet McMiller, and that one of those passengers threatened and then shot McMiller while Pannell drove the shooters away. The Vinton Police Department sought information on the two other people involved.

At trial Pannell, who was 17 at sentencing, was acquitted of first-degree murder and firearm charges but convicted for his role in the attempted robbery and received a 54-month prison sentence. Does anyone have information about the two passengers who were with Pannell that night?