On the night of August 26, 2022, 18-year-old Jaquavion Mackins was found suffering from apparent gunshot wounds while seated inside a vehicle on the 2800 block of Whitener Street in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Emergency crews transported Mackins, a resident of Cairo, Illinois, to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

The Cape Girardeau/Bollinger County Major Case Squad was activated to investigate. Police detained a person of interest at the scene but later released that individual pending further investigation; no charges were announced in the initial reports and no named suspects were identified in those early updates.

What did residents on or near Whitener Street see or hear that night, and who can help fill in the timeline leading up to the shooting?