Shortly after midnight on November 20, 2015, gunfire broke out at the Beacon Point Apartments in Texarkana, Arkansas, leaving two men dead. Inside an upstairs apartment was 22-year-old Travon Staten; on the complex grounds was 33-year-old Julian Bolton, who had been shot during what detectives described as a drug- and money-motivated home invasion.

Investigators concluded Bolton was one of several men who forced entry into Staten’s apartment. During an exchange of gunfire, both Staten and Bolton were struck; Bolton was later found crawling on the grass with a wound believed to have been inflicted by an accomplice. Travon Staten’s cousin, Rashod Rushing, emerged from the apartment armed with a pistol he’d taken from inside and shot Bolton twice in the head.

Rushing was arrested on December 11, 2015, and initially charged with second-degree murder; another man, Justin Damone Johnson, faced capital murder charges in Staten’s death and was later acquitted. In June 2017 Rushing pleaded guilty to manslaughter and received an eight-year sentence with the family’s approval of the amended charge. Did anyone in the area witness the break-in or the moments immediately after the shooting?