louisville and americas family were still consumed by two questions at the heart of it all. who could commit such a horrifying crime, and would the shooter ever be caught? but judith harper had faith all along that justice would be done. most of all, faith in detective arnold. after all, the promise he made to solve the case was to her. he was going to see that these people were found, if it had just been earon it would have been maybe another death. but since erica was involved in that, he wasn t gonna let up on it. judith didn t know it yet but down at police headquarters detective arnold was close to getting answers from the man he had been pursuing since their starring roles in the walgreens video. james quisenberry, the family friend who had made the last phone call to earon and kenneth williams, who admitted to a witness that he was part of a
there is a life and the little body you can imagine, the officers at the scene. prosecutors maintained that the defendants came to steal errands pills in money but then williams change the plan after earon fought back according to rashawn turner. he snatched the purse from her because she wouldn t let go of the purse, he shot her. his testimony helpful in another piece of the puzzle, why quisenberry and williams were in the house that night. it appears that after aaron became too ill to work, she found a way to supplement her income selling her prescription medicine. she had invited her friend quisenberry to buy pills before, but this time the deal deteriorated into robbery and ultimately murder when williams came along with his gun. i had no idea that they would go in the house and kill you over a bottle of pills. the trial took one week and
and their 2-year-old granddaughter, erica. harold, a retired factory worker and judith, a homemaker, talked to their daughter nearly every day. so, the silence was strange. then the tv news flashed on. first here at 7:00 it said there had been a shooting down on wilson avenue, where she lived. and we thought oh, my god. he and judith picked up earon s oldest daughter, ebony, and drove down to the house. there was a whole bunch of people standing outside and it was taped off and it was a mess. so, you knew that something was up? yeah. and then i just freaked out? yeah. it wasn t long before judith and harold s worst fears were confirmed. the jewelry she had on, they brought it to me. i knew it was earon then. their daughter, earon harper, 42, was dead in the doorway. when you saw that jewelry, you knew it was your daughter, what went through you, judy? i lost a son in 78 in a car wreck. he was already gone when i got to the hospital. i could have shed a few
casing. the harsh reality of death lays side by side with the everyday images of young life. earon s body in a pool of blood, near a red kitty wagon. a shell casing in front of a box of diapers and the bed where erica once jumped for joy, was now covered in her own blood. blood on the sheets, pillows and pillowcases. detective arnold noticed something on the bed that would burn in his memory throughout the investigation. you said we re gonna find who did this. . yes. that s a logic somebody, isn t it. it is. coming up, a glimmer of hope
never dwelled on if she wasn t going to make it. now the family had to turn its focus to the one who did not make it. erica s mom, aaron. on may the 25th 2006, a week after she was gunned down, aaron s family gathered for her funeral. and the man who delivered the eulogy was none other than the officer who had raced erica to the hospital. steve kelsey who also served as a minister in a local church. it was so moving and personal because he had been on the scene. but where jessie holiday who had been a crime reporter, what elevated the story was simple, little erica, the public concern from the very beginning was always that there was a two-year-old involved. after nearly two weeks in the hospital, erica was well enough to move to nearby fraser rehabilitation institute. the hard work was just