What the hell happened here? A little black girl is shot and killed while riding in a car with her mom and the mother says the shooter was white and remembers looking into his blue eyes. Everyone loses their shit (rightfully so I might add), but quickly turns this into a race argument (wrongfully so I might add.) Of course the shooter is a racist white terrorist and we have to find him! Texas is filled with racist white terrorists!
Except...oops! Turns out it was two black men who are responsible for the shooting. I really hate to think the mother lied about the description for whatever reasons, but can anyone else give me a legitimate reason for why she said she looked into the murderer's blue eyes and described him as a white man when it was really two black men in a car? This isn't mistaking a light skinned Hispanic man for a white man, this is mistaking a blue eyed white man with a brown eyed black man.
Supposedly one excuse the mother's lawyer gave (the lawyer who says he was brought into the case because of the racist aspects of the case) was she saw a white man running away from the scene and assumed he was the shooter. So you mistake two black men in a car shooting at your car with a white man running away from the scene? How does that even begin to make sense?
What gets me is 4 different family members all corroborated with the white man sketch. And it's not like at some point one of them said "You know thinking back on it I think we're wrong, it was a black man." Instead the police received a tip stating the ones responsible are black. The driver has already been caught and arrested, he confessed and told police the gun was at his house and gave permission to search his house. The police found the gun and said it matched the casings from the bullets at the scene of the murder.
So how did this tip come about? The police are looking for a white man but this tip says it was 2 black men and the tip turned out to be right. Apparently there was a 150k reward leading to the arrest of the murderers and I'd be willing to bet this person knew who the actual murderers were and were probably not going to say shit until they saw the possibility of the 150k reward, suddenly they know who did it.
I really wonder how little media attention this would have received, and if the killers would ever have been found, if the mother said the shooters were black from the beginning. So fucked up and sad that this story only made national news because of the racist aspect the media wanted to push.