Allen C. Basham Jr. was 19 when he was killed in a burst of gunfire on the west side of Erie, Pennsylvania, in the early morning hours of April 16, 2016. A house party on the 1100 block of West 26th Street erupted into a shootout that sent bullets across roughly two square blocks; investigators recovered 44 spent shell casings from at least three different firearms. Basham was found in a business parking lot with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest.

Three men were arrested in connection with the shooting. Marquis P. Knight, 27 at the time, was identified by witnesses as firing at Basham and charged with criminal homicide and first-degree murder; a .40-caliber casing from Knight’s bedroom was forensically linked to casings at the scene. Ashton Pullium-Jones, 24, faced charges after his fingerprints were found on a 9mm Glock tied to about 25 shots, and Jamaine J. Gambill Sr., 30, was charged with firing from a home window. At a November 2016 preliminary hearing, witnesses placed Knight shooting toward Basham, but a defense attorney argued self-defense, pointing to testimony that one witness said Basham fired first and that bullets struck a rental car Knight had been driving.

Did anyone in the area witness events leading up to the shooting or recognize the vehicles involved?