On the evening of December 7, 2014, 22-year-old Scottie Meeks Sr., a Black man from the Whitehaven neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee, was fatally shot. Reports indicate he was holding his two-year-old son when the gunfire struck them both; the child was taken to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in critical condition but was expected to survive. Neighbors described hearing multiple gunshots and the toddler crying that his daddy had been shot.

The incident was not reported as a robbery or a drive-by, and was widely described locally as a senseless act of violence that shook the community. Arrest warrants named 21-year-old Bradley Rankin on charges including second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder with a firearms enhancement, and 20-year-old Oshayland Coleman as an accessory after the fact; Rankin surrendered and Coleman later turned himself in.

Did anyone in Whitehaven that night see or hear anything that could help explain what happened?