On the late morning of May 19, 2020, a burst of gunfire on the 1300 block of Grant Street in Gary, Indiana, left two young men dead. Police arrived about 11:38 a.m. and found 21-year-old Phillip Phillips and another man, Trevion Hudnell, with gunshot wounds; both were pronounced dead at the scene around 12:40 p.m. by the Lake County coroner’s office.

The double homicide investigation initially pointed toward a possible robbery. Two men, Xavier Watson and Mikal Franklin, were charged in the killings but later said they acted in self-defense, claiming Phillips and Hudnell had tried to rob them; those charges were subsequently dropped. In July 2020, violence escalated again when Phillip Phillips’ younger brother, Devonte T. Phillips, and two others — Thaddeus S. McWilliams and Christian I. Nelson — were arrested and charged in the murder of 16-year-old Christopher Watson and the attempted murder of two others, an act reported to be retaliation for Phillips’ death.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who remember the scene on Grant Street that morning or events in the weeks that followed?