The Man in the Red Shirt

On June 14, 2016, a man went to a barbershop in Boston's Mattapan neighbourhood for a haircut. William Shakespeare, a long-time customer, was already there. The two argued loudly behind the shop. At about 12:19 p.m. Shakespeare came back in and said, 'Let me talk to you,' and they went out the back door. Within seconds the man was shot dead in the rear lot. No barber saw the shooter and no gun was found. Two minutes earlier another customer, in a bright red shirt, had walked in through the back, looked toward the victim and left on his phone. That man later told a grand jury he had been at the shop hours earlier and heard no shots, which the shop's video contradicted; he was killed before trial. The judge would not let the jury hear his grand jury testimony.