Harold Donovan Don Don Taylor, a 29-year-old Black man, was killed in the early morning hours of February 14, 2013, in Rand, West Virginia. Shortly before 5 a.m. he was found inside a green Nissan Altima that had crashed in the 300 block of Emory Avenue. The vehicle had been riddled with gunfire and Taylor suffered multiple gunshot wounds, ultimately bleeding to death.

Prosecutors later said Taylor and Tremale Leon Straughter, a childhood friend, had argued and that Straughter fired an AK-47-style rifle into Taylor’s car at least 30 times, heavily damaging the vehicle. The shooting prompted school closures in the area and a manhunt; Straughter was located and taken into custody around 9 a.m. He pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, received life without the possibility of parole, and the court cited his prior criminal history when denying mercy.

Did anyone in Rand at the time see or hear anything that morning that could add detail to the sequence of events?