Here is the kaleidoscopic story of the quintessential, but mostly ignored, American murder-a “ghettoside” killing, one young black man slaying another-and a brilliant and driven cadre of detectives whose creed is to pursue justice for forgotten victims at all costs. His assailant runs down the street, jumps into an SUV, and vanishes, hoping to join the scores of killers in American cities who are never arrested for their crimes.īut as soon as the case is assigned to Detective John Skaggs, the odds shift. On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man is shot and killed on a sidewalk minutes away from his home, one of the thousands of black Americans murdered that year.
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