In the late afternoon of August 21, 2020, a disturbance on the 700 block of 12th Street in Greeley, Colorado, escalated to gunfire. Officers arriving about 5:15 p.m. found two men with gunshot wounds. Nineteen-year-old Deionte Lashay Dior Johnson-Smith of Aurora was gravely injured, taken for emergency surgery, and pronounced dead the following morning. The other victim, 20-year-old Elijah Joziah Duran of Aurora, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Investigators from the Greeley Police Department and the Weld County District Attorney’s Office interviewed witnesses and others involved in the initial disturbance. It was not clear whether all parties knew each other before the encounter. The DA’s office later concluded the shooter had an affirmative self-defense claim, and no arrests were made.

Did anyone in the community see or hear anything that could clarify how the disturbance turned into deadly gunfire?