On a December evening in Las Vegas in 2015, 38-year-old DeAndre Leggett was found shot to death in the kitchen of an apartment near Jackson Avenue and B Street. He was one of three people killed in the same scene; Charlita Lashunda Carroll, 35, and Morty Cornell Young, 37, also died from close-range handgun wounds. Police described the event as a rapid, senseless shooting with no apparent struggle, and investigators noted drug paraphernalia at the scene, prompting suspicion the killings were connected to a robbery tied to the drug trade.

Witnesses reported seeing a tall man about 6 feet 4 inches wearing black running from the apartment through a nearby alley, and an older dark red or burgundy van with a tan stripe was seen leaving the area. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s narcotics and gang intelligence detectives and the FBI Violent Crime Task Force became involved. In March 2016 Gerald Pointer, then 38, was arrested in Chicago on unrelated charges and later identified as the sole suspect; he was extradited to Nevada and indicted on multiple counts including three counts of murder with a deadly weapon, burglary and robbery with a deadly weapon. In March 2020 Pointer, then 42, entered an Alford plea to three counts of second-degree murder and faced a 20 to 50 year sentence as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty.

Did anyone in the area know the victims, the described van, or the man seen running from the apartment?