A July 15, 2018 family barbecue in Grays Ferry, Philadelphia ended with 40-year-old Richard Jackson shot once in the chest on his own front steps. Jackson, a construction worker and father of six, had been involved in a verbal dispute at the gathering after urging his stepdaughter’s new boyfriend to stop selling drugs and find legitimate work. The disagreement involved brothers Marcus Burns and Daryl Burns and briefly turned physical before the brothers were asked to leave.

Jackson went home to cool off but later answered a knock at his West Passyunk front door. Witness testimony and surveillance footage were later used to place a suspect at the scene. The case raises questions about who at the barbecue saw the confrontation and what surveillance exists for the route between Grays Ferry and West Passyunk — did anyone else see Daryl Burns that night?