It started as an ordinary evening in August 2018 and ended in tragedy — a moment of fury that cost one man his life and another his freedom. Melvin Harris, a 41-year-old father from Phoenix, drove to a QT convenience store near 19th and Dunlap avenues to pick up his teenage daughter and her friends. It was late, humid, and quiet — until the situation inside the store’s restroom shattered that calm. When his daughter emerged from the women’s bathroom, shaken and angry, she told Harris that a strange man had tried to force his way into her locked stall.…
