On October 23, 2015, 24-year-old Dominic Clark was found fatally shot in the front yard of a home in the 500 block of Ohio Avenue in Charleston, West Virginia, at about 1 a.m. Police reported he had been shot several times in the back and chest, wounds the department said indicated a close and brutal encounter rather than a drive-by. No arrests had been made immediately after the discovery and the motive remained unclear.

Investigators initially had only a vague description of a stocky man, but surveillance video and witness statements later focused the probe on 18-year-old Darius Coles, and a warrant was issued charging him with first-degree murder; police described him as armed and dangerous and asked the public for tips. Clark’s family said he had recently moved into his own place three weeks earlier and described him as gentle and trusting. Was anyone in Charleston that night who saw Clark leave or saw a stocky man near Ohio Avenue who hasn’t spoken with police?