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On April 10, 2016, a car was found against a building at the Indian Springs apartment complex in South Bend, Indiana. The driver, 34-year-old Gary Williams Jr., was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy later found he died from a gunshot wound rather than from injuries from the crash.

Surveillance footage from the complex shows a man approach Williams’ car, open the driver’s side door, lean inside, and moments later the vehicle’s brake lights come on and it lurches forward into the building while the man flees. Investigators identified the man as 21-year-old Nelson Cotton Jr. Carmisha Williams, who had been in the passenger seat, initially said an unknown person shot Gary but later told police, after being shown the video, that her brother was the shooter; she said she did not know why he did it.

Four days after the shooting the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office charged Nelson Cotton Jr. with murder. Did anyone in the South Bend community know Gary’s movements that night or see something the cameras did not capture?