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Emmanuel Macdonal Sr., 39, and his wife Nancy, 42, were shot and killed in the driveway of their Patterson Street home in Memphis, Tennessee, on November 12, 2020. The couple had been preparing to take their 20-year-old son to court to testify against a man who had shot him months earlier and left him disabled. The son was seated in the backseat and was seriously wounded in the same barrage of bullets but survived.

Investigators say the killings were tied to an effort to intimidate the family and prevent the son from testifying. Ten days before the murders, two men identified as Jaja Mani, also known as Curtis Gouldin, and Troy Clay allegedly offered the family $10,000 for the son’s silence. The day before the shooting, surveillance footage allegedly showed Mani leaving an envelope on the front door containing $1,000, a lawyer’s business card, and a note urging the family to say the son was mistaken.

Following the murders, Mani and Clay were arrested. A Shelby County Grand Jury later indicted Mani on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted first-degree murder, and Clay on a charge of coercion of a witness.

Did anyone in the Patterson Street neighborhood see suspicious activity around November 11–12, 2020?