Hannah Critchfield

She runs towards the convenience store and she finds her son lying there and he's been shot.

And he tells her, it's bad.

He says, you have to call 911.

She starts to walk, and a woman pulls over and says, hey, did you hear about the shooting in the neighborhood?

And Latoya says, that's my son, that's my baby.

And so the woman ends up giving her a ride to the hospital.

So, this is maybe a good time to introduce Anthony Jean-Pierre.

And what he says happened is that he was driving a stranger for cash in his car to an area where the stranger wanted to buy weed.

And he says that as the driver, he gets out of the car and he sees this younger man walking up to him.

And that man pulls a gun.

He's shot in the hand and he flees the scene.

Right.

So early on, homicide detectives, they clearly apply the standard sort of routes that you would employ when you're trying to solve a homicide investigation.

And they say, I actually might have some information about this killing.

Now, this person gives a rumor.

The rumor is that they heard that Kalia and Frederick planned to rob someone during a drug deal and that...

The 16-year-old was shot and killed by someone who got shot in the hands.

No, they ultimately told us that no witnesses, no direct witnesses came forward in this case.

And, you know, this is something that came up a lot in our reporting on civilian justifiable homicides is that it is...

much harder to solve a homicide investigation when it occurred in a community that might be distrustful of police or fear retaliation from other actors within the community who are shopping at the same grocery stores, maybe attending the same churches as they are.