On December 16, 2018 Anita Jean Randle, 54, was working as a store clerk at a Valero on Rock Prairie Road in College Station when she was shot and killed during a robbery. The suspect, identified in reporting as 29-year-old Rufus Lockett of Houston, reportedly demanded money at gunpoint; after Anita complied he shot her in the chest and she died shortly afterward.

Investigators linked Lockett to an earlier robbery three days before at an Apple Stop convenience store in Bryan, where a clerk was shot but survived. Bryan and College Station police worked together to identify Lockett; he admitted to the crimes and was arrested and later indicted. Anita’s family remembered her as loving and generous, a mother and grandmother whose life had a deep impact on her community.

If anyone knew Anita or has information about the case, please share what you know with the investigators handling the matter.