The family hopes their coming forward to the media will get members of the community to come forward with information about Garner's shooter. Rich Engwall, the uncle of Garner's fianceé, said he doesn't want Garner's shooter to kill another innocent person.
Garner was slain Saturday morning. A fight broke out at a food cart at 4021 W. Hillsborough Ave. Someone cut in line, Tampa police say, angering some other customers.
Words were said. Blows were thrown. Shots were fired.
Police say a stray bullet hit Garner, who wasn't part of the fight.
Garner, of 10914 Black Swan Court, Seffner, drove away after being shot and then crashed his car a short time later on North Lois Avenue, just south of Hillsborough Avenue. He was pronounced later dead at St. Joseph's Hospital.
"I hope they catch the guy who did this before he can hurt someone else," Garner's fianceé, Sarah Mayor, said in a news release. "He was so anxious to get a sandwich that he was willing to take a life. It just doesn't make any sense."
Mayor said Garner always put friends and family first and even had offered to quit school to help put her through pharmacy school.
She said Garner was her best friend and life partner.
"We were planning our wedding, our family and our life together, and now he's been taken from me," she said in the news release. "It's going to take a long time for me to understand why this had to happen."
Mayor and Garner first met while working for a Brandon movie theater.
"Al was an honor student and a handsome young man," she said in the release. "He had lots of plans for the future and worked hard to make our dreams happen. We bought a house together and had our entire lives ahead of us."
Garner's friend, Eriberto "Eddie" Reyes, 27, was shot in the abdomen during Saturday's incident. Reyes was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital and is in serious but stable condition.
On Monday, police said the shooting suspect has a dark complexion and thin build. He is a Hispanic man, between 5 feet 8 inches and 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 150 to 170 pounds. He is in his late teens or early 20s and was wearing a white T-shirt, jeans and a dark baseball cap.
There were three to four Hispanic male accomplices in their late teens or early 20s. They also wore white T-shirts, jeans and dark baseball caps, police said.
The shootings don't appear to be gang-related, police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said.
About 30 to 40 people were in the parking lot when the shooting occurred. Police are trying to urge witnesses to come forward.
Those with information can call police at (813) 231-6130.