On July 14, 2014, 56-year-old Cortez McCoy was killed on Detroit’s west side after gunfire intended for someone else struck him as an innocent bystander. The shooting followed an earlier assault in which a 35-year-old man had been attacked; that man went home, returned with a long-barreled firearm and fired into the street aiming at the person who had assaulted him. The original assailant reportedly fled before the shooting began.

McCoy was struck by the gunfire and pronounced dead at the scene. Police focused their investigation on how the shooter came to retrieve the weapon and open fire in a public area. Initial reports identified the shooter by age and his role in the earlier assault, but did not provide details about formal charges or a trial.

Did anyone in the neighborhood witness the sequence leading up to the shooting or recognize the man who returned with the firearm?