In the early morning hours of February 24, 2008, in Des Moines, Iowa, the life of 18-year-old Richard Lewis, a Black/African American male, was tragically cut short. Lewis was inside a car near the downtown area with his friend, 18-year-old Damont Jackson, when gunfire erupted around 2:40 a.m. The shots proved fatal for Lewis, while Jackson sustained a leg injury that required surgery but was expected to recover.
The investigation into the shooting initially led police to seek two men as
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