On the evening of April 2, 2014, gunfire rang out at a Cedar Rapids home and killed 22-year-old Quintrell Perkins, a Black/African American man, along with 20-year-old Sierrah Simmons. Perkins and Simmons were in the living room of Perkins’s father’s house when someone outside opened fire. Perkins’s girlfriend, another woman, and a child were in the room as well but were not struck.

Investigators recovered bullet holes in the exterior of the residence and shell casings on the ground outside; witnesses reported hearing a series of pops and seeing flashes at a side window. Authorities charged Kendu Petties with two counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy, alleging he was the shooter and that the attack was retaliatory for a prior altercation. Petties denied being in Cedar Rapids that day, but a Linn County jury found him guilty on all counts and convicted him of both murders.

Did anyone in Cedar Rapids see or hear anything that night that could add detail about who fired into that house?