On the evening of January 13, 2018, Justin Flores, 34, and his partner, 23-year-old Cahla Richardson, were fatally shot in their Robinwood Street home in Pontiac, Michigan. The couple, who had three children together, were pronounced dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds. Two young children were in the home during the shooting but were unharmed.

Investigators say three young men arrived to buy marijuana; 21-year-old Austin Cooper planned to use counterfeit money to swindle or rob Flores and was accompanied by 17-year-olds Jordan Garcia-Tinoco and Giovanni Mccaa. A witness reported hearing gunfire and seeing an armed man fire at Flores as Flores appeared to chase him from the house. That witness struck a fleeing suspect with his vehicle, but the individual escaped. All three suspects were arrested the next morning and charged with felony murder and weapons offenses. Testimony later attributed the killings to Garcia-Tinoco; Flores was shot eight times and Richardson twice. The semi-automatic handgun believed to have been used was recovered.

The convictions and life sentences for the three men, and an appeals court decision upholding Garcia-Tinoco’s sentence, followed the trial. Did anyone in the Pontiac community have information about activity on Robinwood Street or the people involved that night?