On December 12, 2019, 17-year-old Kory Lino was shot and killed in an alley behind a car wash in Henderson, Nevada. Lino and a friend, both 17, had missed a bus and were walking back toward an apartment complex when, according to reports, the friend began firing a Glock that he had in his backpack. The shots alerted 44-year-old Edward Croaker, who was in his nearby Meadow Bluffs Avenue home and, citing recent vandalism and an intruder at his residence, retrieved a firearm. Looking out his bedroom window, Croaker saw the teenagers in the parking lot and after another shot fired three rounds from the window; Lino was struck and later found dead from a gunshot wound to the head about 90 feet from where Croaker had fired.

Croaker was initially arrested and charged with murder, but in September 2020 the Clark County District Attorney dismissed the murder charge, concluding Croaker acted in self-defense and that the prosecution could not meet the burden of proof. Lino’s mother, Patrice Lino, said she was devastated by the dismissal and criticized that a man could shoot a child in the back of the head with no consequences. Does anyone have information about the moments before the shooting or about witnesses who were in the area that night?