On the afternoon of May 19, 2021, 18-year-old Morgan Alexandria Jean Dawkins was shot and killed while sitting in a vehicle at a gas station on Detroit’s east side. She was at the station with a friend and was a mother to a three-year-old daughter, Riley Simone. An argument between Timothy Charles McGhee Jr. and another man in the lot escalated; McGhee opened fire and bullets sprayed the area. Both young women in the vehicle were struck. Morgan was taken to a nearby hospital but succumbed to her injuries; her friend survived.

Detroit Police identified 22-year-old Timothy Charles McGhee Jr. as the suspected shooter. He was arrested and charged by the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office with one count of first-degree murder, six counts of assault with intent to murder, and multiple felony firearm counts relating to Morgan’s death and the other victims. The case went to trial, where McGhee claimed self-defense, but the jury found him guilty of first-degree murder for Morgan Dawkins’s death.

Did anyone who knew Morgan or who was at that gas station that day see something that investigators might have missed?