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Jeffrey Martin Lute, 28, was fatally shot after an altercation in the parking lot of a Texas Roadhouse in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the evening of August 14, 2016. The dispute stemmed from tensions between Lute, a former member of the Steel Horse Rebels motorcycle club, and current members of the club who went to the restaurant to confront him. The argument became physical; Lute, who was licensed to carry a handgun, shot one club member in the leg as he tried to leave.

According to court accounts, another club member, 29-year-old Andrew Mac Cassaday, retrieved a gun from his car and, in what prosecutors called an ambush, shot Lute as he rounded the corner of the building. Lute died at the scene from a single gunshot wound to the neck. Cassaday was arrested, tried, and in April 2017 was found guilty of murder; he was sentenced in May 2017 to 65 years in prison.

Are there witnesses or others who remember that night or who can clarify how the confrontation began?