On the evening of April 3, 2017, 50-year-old Craig Henise was found bleeding on the ground in the 400 block of Newton Street in York, Pennsylvania, after sustaining a gunshot wound to his leg. First responders took him to York Hospital in critical condition; he died the following day and his death was ruled a homicide.

Surveillance footage showed Henise speaking with two young males for about 15 to 20 minutes near the scene before they left the camera’s view. A witness saw two teenage boys running after a gunshot. A school witness later told police that a 16-year-old student, Bernard Howard Simmons III, had admitted to shooting someone in an alley near his home the previous night and had asked about potential prison time. Simmons, who lived a short distance away, was taken into custody at school, and in the presence of his mother he confessed to shooting Henise but said he acted in self-defense, claiming he saw a gun in Henise’s waistband and that he gave the firearm to a friend afterward.

Simmons was charged as an adult with criminal homicide and a firearms violation and was arraigned held in York County Prison without bail. Does anyone have information about Henise’s movements that evening or about the two young men captured on video?