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On the evening of June 27, 1985, 72-year-old grocer Clyde Jenkins was shot and killed at Bon’s Supermarket in Hampton, Virginia. The store was closing near 10 p.m. when an armed man, later identified as Herman Charles Barnes, accosted an employee sweeping the parking lot and forced him back into the store as a human shield. Jenkins confronted the intruder and a struggle followed; Jenkins was shot twice at point-blank range and died.

Another employee, 42-year-old Mohammad Yakien Afifi, rushed to assist, was initially able to tackle Barnes, but was shaken off and then fatally shot as well. Barnes pointed his gun at the first employee after killing both men. Barnes was later arrested, convicted of capital murder for the killings, and sentenced to death; a later federal order required resentencing because prosecutors had not disclosed a gun found under Jenkins’ body, though the conviction was upheld.

Did anyone who worked at Bon’s Supermarket or lived nearby that night see something that hasn’t been shared?