Mann and two of his friends stopped at the Fina gas station on McNiel Avenue and Kell Boulevard. The business's security camera shows them inside the store at 10:00 p.m. They visited a McDonald's restaurant before going mudding in one of the friends' vehicles. Mann mentioned he needed to return home while they cleaned the automobile at a local car wash. He said he was meeting someone at 12:15 a.m. on May 11. He did not mention the person's name or the location of their meeting place. His friends saw him walk up the stairs towards his apartment at approximately 11:45 p.m., but they did not see Mann enter his residence. Mann's parents discovered the Ford Mustang he was driving abandoned in a church parking lot near their home near the 4300 block of McNiel Avenue during the morning of May 11. The trunk was partially open and a side panel was apparently lowered inside the compartment. The interior had been cleaned. The car doors were locked, but the alarm system had been turned off.