In the early afternoon of Wednesday, February 21, 2024, 43-year-old Joshun Laandre Edwards was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Southside Liquor Shoppe on Lapeer Road in Flint, Michigan. Edwards was getting into his car when he was struck; he was taken to Hurley Medical Center and pronounced dead. The Flint Police Department opened an investigation and identified a person of interest who was taken into custody.

That person was identified as 52-year-old Terry Paul Moore. Investigators reported a history of conflict between Moore and Edwards that had stretched across several years and had reportedly escalated in the days before the shooting, including a dispute three days earlier in Burton, Michigan. Moore was charged in connection with Edwards’s death.

Edwards’s life included a complex legal history: he was one of four men convicted in a 2007 murder and sentenced to life, but after 15 years those convictions were vacated by the Michigan Supreme Court because a missing police interview transcript undermined the prosecution’s case. A new trial was pending and the case was later dismissed when a witness recanted, and Edwards was released in 2022.

Did anyone in Flint or Burton know about escalating tensions between Edwards and Moore or see them together in the days before February 21, 2024?