to get a jury of your peers. knowing he needed a sympathetic jury, clive drew on his experience working in mississippi and petitioned to enlist jurors from rural and sparsely populated pinola county. i knew that pinola county was divided into two halves, and one-half was majority white, and the other half was majority black. forrest allgood didn t know about pinola county, and when pinola county came up, i said, we ve got to have one district or the other. why don t we have the second district? and no one thought about it, and everybody agreed to that. forrest allgood s face, i ve never seen anything like it as he walked into that courtroom. he was not used to dealing with a jury that was majority black. the jury consisted of one white and 11 black jurors. while it s not like those inju jurors are sitting there saying i m going to acquit her because she s a black woman because
burdette killed in a hit and run accident that wasn t investigated until drew griffin started asking questions about it. drew discovered the case while looking into a similar case from last summer. both victims were african-american, both in pinola county, mississippi. last summer in rural pinola county, johnny lee, a 61-year-old black man, walking far off the shoulder of this road, was deliberately run over and killed by a car carrying three white teens. driver told police he thought he hit a deer. his two passengers both say the 18-year-old driver steered straight for him. the driver s charged with murder but there s no evidence to suggest a racial motive. johnny s brother says the white local law enforcement simply don t want to know the truth. do you believe the sheriff or district attorney don t want to or are afraid to know the truth? i actually think they don t want to.
these streets knocking on doors, asking people if they ve seen anything? no. not over this way. reporter: do you know of any activity that way? no, no one said anything. reporter: so how do you know if they re investigating? well, they had put it on the paper, you know, when they found him dead, and then they had put on then they wrote it in the newspaper. they said it was still being investigated. reporter: ruby burdettes hope rests in this one small news article from three years ago that says police are still investigating. cnn has learned they never really have. never had a case turned into us. reporter: in january we asked the district attorney who covers pinola county to search his records to find out if anyone from the sheriffs office had contacted him regarding garrett burdettes killing. there was nothing. which means one of two things. either it ended up being an accident, which we would not have had, or they never found the person that did it.
they were leaving a family gathering. police in gulf, california, believe the drive-by shooting last night was gang related. all seven victims are expected to survive, with non life threatening injuries. rell tis of the victims returned home this morning to hose down the blood-covered driveway. police are searching for four men believed involved in that sho shooting. two hit-and-run cases in rural mississippi are raising questions about hate crime investigations there. one last summer and one in 2009. they both happened in pinola county. the victims were african-american men. one is under investigation. but the earlier one wasn t being investigated. that is until our drew griffin started asking some questions. reporter: the cross is so far off the road you might never notice it unless you were looking for it. ruby burdett never miss it. she put it here 3 1/2 years ago to mark the spot her son died
welcome back. before the break, we brought you the story of garrett burdette, he was killed in a hit-and-run accident that wasn t investigated until our drew griffin started requesting questions about it. both victims were african-american, both in pinola county, mississippi. last summer johnny, a 61-year-old black man walking far off the shoulder of this road was deliberately run over and killed by a car carrying three white teens. the driver told police he thought he hit a deer. his two passengers both said the 18-year-old driver steered straight for him. the driver s charged with murder, the d.a., though, says there s no evidence to suggest a