Nickerson insisted on showing him an array of several photos. Even though Greg Elking said he didn't get a good look at the suspects, he says Det. Still, Nickerson, he says, insisted on showing him several photos. … I mean, it was, it was somebody that I just immediately admired.Įlking says even though the shooters were wearing masks, he could tell they were dark skinned black men, but he only saw the eyes of one of them. … I thought he was like Nick Nolte from "48 Hours" - out of a movie - he was awesome. Greg Elking: I thought he was this amazing dude. And he, too, sold drugs on the side.Įrika Barrow: Markus was … like the preppy type. Johnson's good friend, Markus Boyd, five years older, had also started a family, and was holding down a solid job at a printing company. Markus Boyd, 25, was shot to death by two gunmen on his St. It was just something to help him manage … until he could do better. But that wasn't the sum of who I was.Įrika Barrow: Selling drugs wasn't his life. And – I – I - I take responsibility for that. Lamar Johnson: Yes, I was makin' some poor choices then. But he also had a dangerous side hustle – selling small amounts of crack cocaine for extra cash. So, Johnson, the 20-year-old father of two, worked at Jiffy Lube while attending community college. … He wanted to be the man that he needed to be for his, his children. Johnson had steered clear of serious trouble.Įrika Barrow: He wanted to better himself. His South Side neighborhood in 1994 was battered by high crime and homicide rates. Louis – consistently ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the country.
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