Cordaro Deere, 32, was shot in the early morning hours of August 25, 2019, near the 900 block of Douglas Avenue in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Officers responding to reports of gunfire found Deere wounded; he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Deere’s fiancée, Connie Anderson, described him as a loving father and partner with no known enemies.

Three days later, on August 28, 2019, detectives arrested 32-year-old Kevin Dixon at an apartment complex in the 3000 block of South Burdick Street and charged him with open murder, felony firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. In April 2022 Dixon was sentenced to 50 months to 15 years for discharge of a firearm causing injury or death. Dixon apologized in court and said he did not intend for the shooting to happen, but the motive for the killing is reported as unclear.

Did anyone in Kalamazoo see or hear anything around Douglas Avenue the morning of August 25, 2019, that could shed light on what happened?