An 8-year-old boy, Jakari Pearson, was killed in the early hours of July 30, 2014, in Detroit when a bullet fired from outside his family’s apartment at the Brewster Homes public housing project penetrated a wall and struck him in the chest. The shooting occurred about 1:20 a.m.; Jakari was found by his mother and rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.

The attack followed a confrontation the previous day in which 28-year-old Calvin Mosby, the mother’s ex-boyfriend, allegedly threatened her after she accused him of an earlier break-in. Neighbors said they heard Mosby threaten to kill her, and Mosby left several angry voicemails that night. That same night Mosby returned with 17-year-old Devaunte Starks; Mosby is accused of firing an AK-47 supplied by another person into Jakari’s bedroom, while Starks later wrapped the rifle in a sweatshirt and concealed it.

Both men were arrested and charged in connection with the killing. After a preliminary hearing, Mosby was ordered to stand trial on first-degree murder; the first-degree murder charge against Starks was dismissed, and he was bound over for trial on other weapons and accessory-related charges. Did anyone in the Brewster Homes area see or hear anything that night that could help fill in what happened?