Choice Elliston was 23 when he was killed on May 9, 2017, in Des Moines. He was a passenger in a black Saturn Ion with three others when a red sedan driven by a rival group began pursuing them, triggering a rolling gun battle near 30th Street and Hickman Road. Both cars stopped at a red light and gunfire erupted; a single fatal shot struck Elliston in the head while he was seated in the back next to 19-year-old Jahmar Saheim Mustin. The driver took Elliston to Broadlawns Medical Center, but he did not survive.

Months later, Keyshaun Jones told detectives that Mustin had arrived at a friend’s apartment that night with blood and brain matter on his clothes and admitted that Elliston had been shot. Forensic analysis found stippling on Elliston’s wound, consistent with a shot fired at very close range, and investigators concluded Mustin was the only person in a position to have fired the fatal round. Mustin was arrested and charged with first-degree murder and criminal gang participation; he later pleaded guilty to lesser counts including two counts of intimidation with a dangerous weapon, criminal gang participation, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, and was sentenced to 30 years.

Did anyone in the Des Moines area witness the shooting or see the two vehicles involved that afternoon?