A welfare check in the early hours of July 8, 2020, produced a grim discovery in a Denver apartment on East Albrook Drive. Officers found two boys dead inside: 15-year-old Moses Chaney Harris and 14-year-old Xzavier Collier, both fatally shot. Their deaths were investigated as a double homicide and shocked a community already grappling with youth violence.

The apartment belonged to 22-year-old Kalani Hayter, who had been found shot to death inside her car the day before, on July 7. Investigators saw an immediate connection between those scenes and another nearby killing: the July 5 shooting death of 23-year-old Yaun Yae Long in a liquor store parking lot. Police focused their inquiry on 16-year-old Jayque Owens; Hayter’s vehicle was linked to Long’s killing, and Owens was later arrested on unrelated warrants on July 9 and found with two semi-automatic pistols, one reported stolen.

Does anyone have information about Moses, Xzavier, or what led to that apartment being visited that week?