On the evening of Friday, August 15, 2014, Eric Alexander Reese, 46, was fatally shot at Park Place Apartments on Lanier Drive in Statesboro, Georgia. Police arrived about 8:30 p.m. and found Reese had died of a gunshot wound to the chest after an altercation involving firearms.

A native of Emanuel County who had lived in Bulloch County for years, Reese worked as a brick mason and was a father of four. Family members said he was planning to marry and that, according to his nephew, Reese was an innocent bystander caught in crossfire during a dispute believed to involve several high school students.

Arrests followed quickly. A 17-year-old named Lester Parrish was taken into custody the next day and charged with murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime. Six others were detained at the scene, including three 16-year-old juveniles and three 17-year-olds: QuShaun Xavier Donta Williams, Michael Crayshawn London, and Malcolm Jamal Johnson, who faced various obstruction, drug, and loitering charges.

Did anyone in the Statesboro area see or hear anything that night that might help clarify how Reese came to be caught in the shooting?