On the night of February 19, 1992, Curtis Thorne was shot and killed in Richmond, Virginia, during a targeted attack linked to an organized drug-trafficking group known as the Newtowne gang. Thorne was in a car with Linwood Potsie Chiles and sisters Priscilla and Gwen Greene when two gang members, Corey Johnson and Richard Tipton, approached and opened fire. Chiles was also killed; the Greene sisters were critically wounded but survived.

Chiles had been suspected of cooperating with police, and the shootings were described as part of the gang’s effort to secure control of the local crack cocaine trade. Federal prosecutors later used the drug kingpin statute in a largescale indictment that tied the leaders to a series of murders during the gang’s violent campaign.

Was anyone in Richmond at the time able to witness activity by the Newtowne gang or recognize the victims’ vehicle that night?