On the night of March 24, 2012, 18-year-old Ervin Lee Jefferson III was fatally shot in front of his family’s home on Pleasant Wood Drive in DeKalb County, Georgia. Jefferson, a father to a baby girl, had returned home with his mother, Candy Grimes, and his sister when a confrontation began after a car containing several young women arrived to confront the sister.

Two private security guards, Curtis Scott, 25, and Gary Jackson, 26, who worked near the Village at Wesley Chapel Apartments, left their patrol area to investigate that vehicle. Police say the guards identified themselves as officers and detained the women. Accounts differ about what happened next: the guards told police Jefferson approached them aggressively and they heard gunshots from the direction of his house before they fired, striking him in the chest. Jefferson’s family says he was unarmed and trying to protect his sister; his mother witnessed the shooting and said a guard shot him without provocation. The coroner determined Jefferson crawled under a vehicle after being wounded.

Scott and Jackson were arrested on charges of impersonating police officers and released on bond.

Did anyone in the neighborhood witness the confrontation or the moments immediately before the shooting?