On the evening of July 4, 2023, 15-year-old Jameel C. Redding-Pettigrew was walking home in Fort Dodge, Iowa, when gunfire broke out near South 15th Street and Fourth Avenue South. Officers found the Black teenager unresponsive in the roadway with multiple gunshot wounds; despite life-saving efforts by law enforcement and medics, Jameel was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators focused on 18-year-old Jamarrion James Davis of Ankeny. Witnesses said Jameel had stopped briefly at a holiday barbecue where a cousin was a guest, and after he left someone reportedly identified him as DJ’s little brother, a reference to Davonquae Pettigrew. Surveillance video captured Jameel being shot in the intersection, and police alleged Davis ran down an alley in the same direction Jameel was heading before the shooting.

Did anyone see Jameel that night or recognize the route he took after leaving the barbecue?