In the late hours of a Thursday in May 2011, 20-year-old Wayne State football player Courtney Cortez Smith was shot and killed in the parking lot of Club Envy in downtown Detroit after stepping in to break up a fight. Smith, who had been named Wayne State’s 2010 Defense Rookie of the Year, intervened when an argument began after a member of his group was denied entry to the club. Two men involved in the altercation, Quentin King and Anton Blevins, pursued the group and opened fire. A 25-year-old man with Smith was also wounded.

Investigators identified King and Blevins as the primary suspects. Blevins was arrested in Las Vegas in December 2011. In February 2013 a jury convicted both men: King of first-degree murder and Blevins of second-degree murder, along with multiple assault charges and a felony firearm count; Blevins received a 30 to 60 year sentence for the second-degree murder conviction. Did anyone who knew Courtney or was near Club Envy that night see anything that could add detail to what happened?