On the evening of June 7, 2012, 19-year-old Melvin Vernell III of Sandy Springs, Georgia, an emerging rapper known as Lil Phat, was shot multiple times while sitting in his car in a hospital parking deck at Northside Hospital as he awaited the birth of his child. Witnesses saw two men, one tall and one short, flee the scene. Vernell was taken into the hospital but was pronounced dead shortly afterward.

Investigators say the killing grew out of retaliation for a drug robbery. Authorities identified and arrested five men in connection with the plot: Deandre Washington, Gary Bradford, Maurice Conner, Decensae White, and Mani Chulpayev. Police allege White and Bradford hired Washington and Conner for $10,000 to carry out the killing, and that Chulpayev, who had leased the car to Vernell, used a GPS tracker to locate him in the hospital parking deck.

In August 2014 a Fulton County jury convicted three men: Deandre Washington was convicted of murder and other charges and given life plus 20 years; Gary Bradford received 25 years for conspiracy and gang activity; Maurice Conner got 30 years for conspiracy, gang activity, and weapons offenses.

Does anyone have information about Vernell’s movements that night or about the men seen fleeing the scene?