On November 1, 2015, an apparent traffic crash in the 1300 block of Cleveland Street in Gary, Indiana, proved to be a homicide. Inside a maroon 1995 Cadillac that had struck a residential garage, responders found 18-year-old Anfernee Jones unresponsive; he had suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Lake County Coroner’s Office.

Investigators traced the Cadillac’s registration to 51-year-old James E. Adams. Adams told police he left his vehicle running and unlocked while he went into a Discount Liquor Store on West 15th Avenue, saw someone enter his car, retrieved a handgun, ran back out and fired through the driver’s side window. He initially claimed two males entered the car but later said that was untrue. Surveillance from the store shows Adams leaving with a gun and shots can be heard; no weapon was found in the Cadillac and authorities say Jones was unarmed.

James E. Adams was arrested and charged with murder in Jones’s death. Did anyone in the area see the car or the men near the liquor store that night?