Marcus Cardenas had just stepped outside his house for a smoke and a phone call when an SUV pulled up. A man jumped out and shot him in the neck and head.
Cardenas’s mother, Dolores, ran outside. “I went to him immediately,” she said. But she was too late. Her 20-year-old son was lying flat on the ground.
That moment – more than eight years ago now – spun into a vortex of pursuit and persecution. Dolores wanted to find out who had shot her son, and why.
