Curtis Frazier Jr. was 16 and a junior varsity football player at Riley High School when he was shot on September 6, 2019, in the 1700 block of Calvert Street in South Bend, Indiana. An autopsy found a gunshot wound to the chest and ruled his death a homicide. Police found both Frazier and 18-year-old Makyi Toliver wounded; Frazier was unconscious and later pronounced dead at a local hospital.

Initial statements to police had Toliver saying the two were victims of a robbery, but investigators found material on Toliver’s Facebook account indicating the pair had planned to rob a man of a handgun and assault him. The alleged intended victim told police Frazier and Toliver attacked him, he fled to a nearby house, and when they followed, he drew his weapon and shot both young men multiple times.

Makyi Toliver was charged with murder and attempted robbery in May 2020 on a felony murder theory and was later convicted after trial; he received a 45-year sentence in July 2021 for his role in the attempted robbery that led to Frazier’s death.

Did anyone in South Bend see or hear anything on the night of September 6 that might clarify what happened?