Darnell Leroy Byrd III, 21, was found fatally shot in a dimly lit alley in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, on the night of September 5, 2015. His death came during a late-summer wave of violence in the city.

Days earlier, on August 30, Byrd had been involved in a separate shooting at the East Park Manor public housing complex in which four people were shot and Thedrick Bryant was killed. Byrd suffered minor injuries in that incident and was charged with receiving and concealing stolen ammunition. The two episodes are connected in the local investigation.

Authorities arrested several people in the murder probe. Jeremy Darnell Morton, then 28; Kierelle Montrell Burns, 23; and Josiah Fousse, 22, were charged with open murder and felony firearm. Burns and Morton faced enhanced charges as habitual offenders. Two women, Brittany Jon-na Kelsey, 24, and Shamarea Zhane Salazar, 21, were charged in relation to the investigation for lying to police and being an accessory after the fact, respectively. Kierelle Burns was convicted and is serving a life sentence; Jeremy Morton was also tried in the case.

Did anyone in Muskegon Heights at the time notice unusual activity around East Park Manor or the alley where Byrd was found?