On the evening of February 15, 2019, 20-year-old DeShawn McCabe of Minneapolis went to the Crystal Village Apartments in Crystal, Minnesota, saying he planned to meet someone to buy an iPhone. Around 7:45 p.m. police found him lying between two vehicles in the parking lot of the 3000 block of Sumter Avenue North with a single gunshot wound to the chest. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

Family remembered McCabe as a young father with many dreams who had a nearly one-year-old son. Investigators quickly concluded the killing was not random and that McCabe and his assailant were acquainted and had arranged to meet at that location. A person of interest was identified early in the probe and detectives pursued interviews, forensics, and search warrants over the following year.

In April 2020 police arrested a teenage male in St. Paul in connection with McCabe’s death; the suspect was 15 at the time of the shooting and had turned 16 by his arrest. He was held on suspicion of second-degree murder and his case was to be forwarded to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office for charging. Did anyone who knew DeShawn or who was in the Crystal Village Apartments parking lot that night see or hear anything that could help?