Milique Wagner was exhausted and bleary-eyed after three days under the glare of fluorescent lights in the Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit — but he says he still remembers the conversation with the detective, Philip Nordo, in vivid detail.
He'd already signed the papers Nordo put in front of him, and called his girlfriend to come pick him up. Nordo had been questioning Wagner about the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Braheem King on Feb. 10, 2010, insisting that Wagner was involved, and demanding information. But now the detective was about to let him go.
There was just one thing Nordo wanted to discuss first, Wagner said.