Marcus Boyd and Gary Elking were sitting in the dark on the stoop of Boyd’s apartment in St. Louis, Missouri, when two masked men brandishing guns ran up to them and started to fire. Boyd was shot multiple times and died at the scene. Elking, terrified but unharmed, fled on foot.
Days later, Elking would tell the police that he couldn’t identify either of the assailants because they wore dark clothing and black ski masks that covered all but their eyes. The only other person at the scene, Boyd’s girlfriend, Leslie Williamson, was similarly unable to identify the attackers. She’d been upstairs drawing a bath for the couple’s young daughter when she heard the popping of gunfire; she made it down to the porch in time to glimpse a man in black holding a gun.
The police had nothing concrete to go on. But by the time they finally interviewed Elking, they had already latched onto a suspect: 20-year-old Lamar Johnson.

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Source: The Intercept_