WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) — Man had yet to land on the moon and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was still rallying the nation when Gerald Gort, 53, and Jack McRoy, 17, headed to work for what would be their last shift.

It was March 2, 1968, and Gort and McRoy were clerks at the Cavalier Service Station on Remembrance Road near Wilson Avenue in Walker.

Nearly sixty years later, there’s an empty lot where the gas station once stood at 4417 Remembrance Road, but the horrific double murder that happened there is back in the spotlight.

That’s because the killer, now 78 years old, is set for resentencing after the Michigan Supreme Court’s April ruling that declared mandatory life without parole unconstitutional not just for minors, but for 19- and 20-year-olds too.

Charles Ronald Martin was 20 when he

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