Curtis Bradford, 22, was found dead outside a detached garage near 18th and Clark Streets in Omaha on the morning of August 19, 2013. A man returning home from a night shift discovered the body around 7 a.m.; investigators identified Bradford soon after and determined he had been shot twice in the back of the head, with later testimony specifying one wound from a revolver and another from a shotgun slug.
Bradford had recently reconnected with Nikko Jenkins, whom he knew from prison. Witnesses and court records placed Bradford with Jenkins within hours of the killing, including accounts that they had been together the night before. A photograph surfaced showing Bradford and Jenkins posing together shortly before Bradford’s death. Detectives soon focused on Jenkins and members of his family; Jenkins was arrested on August 29, 2013, and later convicted for a separate four-victim spree in Omaha that included Bradford.
Prosecutors also brought charges against Jenkins’s sister, Erica Jenkins. Witnesses, including another sister, Lori Sayles, testified that on the night Bradford was killed Erica, Nikko, and Bradford left a car under the pretense of committing a robbery and that Erica and Nikko returned holding weapons.
If anyone knew Bradford, his movements that week, or has information about the people seen with him, please share what is known.