Deandre Moore was 25 when he died on June 22, 2014, but the events that defined his criminal case began years earlier. On August 11, 2010, Moore and a cousin approached a parked vehicle in Cleveland belonging to food delivery workers Hong Zheng and Bingrong Zheng and fired multiple shots into the car. Hong Zheng was killed and Bingrong Zheng suffered a broken arm.

Moore was a juvenile at the time of the shooting and was bound over to the Cuyahoga County Grand Jury on numerous counts, including aggravated murder. He later pleaded guilty to murder with a firearm specification; the state dismissed the remaining counts. The trial court imposed an indefinite sentence of 15 years to life for murder, with a consecutive three-year term for the firearm specification. Moore was held at the Richland Correctional Institution and the Court of Appeals of Ohio affirmed the conviction.

Does anyone have additional information about Moore’s life in Cleveland or about the Zhengs that could shed light on what led to the shooting?