Sergeant Tyrone Hassel III

Yes, the streets are talking, but it's getting police nowhere.

In the days following the homicide, investigators have to run down an assortment of leads, tips, and rumors, many of them offering a similar scenario, one that implies that a dirty look or a mean stare was the spark that would later escalate into the shooting.

And that was the case here at this local roller rink where Tyrone liked to skate with his friends.

He just called an old buddy and said, hey, man, come roller skating with me.

And we'd heard through one of the people that he'd had a beef with somebody at the roller rink.

Everybody was at a loss trying to explain what happened, right?

And one of the leads might have been that incident at the roller rink.

Yeah, they said he got in a tool with somebody.

He never got in a tool with anyone.

No, there was no one else who gave him a dirty look or words exchanged.

I was on the sideline watching them skate.

He was just skating, his normal self, happy, smiling, just going around the road with him, just normal stuff.

Nothing abnormal happened.

We talked to the individuals involved and said there was no beef.

I don't know what they're talking about.

It might have been a look or something, but Tyrone didn't have any problems with anybody.

It's mid-afternoon on New Year's Eve, and a surveillance camera picks up Sergeant Hassel at this local Walmart.

It's the last time he's seen in public, and he's with two unknown individuals.

You can see Sergeant Hassel over by the counter in the white cab.

He was actually seen with two individuals walking through Walmart and talking to these individuals as if he knew them.