The apartment was a disaster area. There were pots and pans everywhere, and uncooked food. Piles of clothes were all over the floor. There was another black man lying on the couch. I could hear kids and a woman upstairs.
Holder remembers it differently.
When I opened the door, upwards of 10 officers came in with their guns drawn. They took some of my clothes for me, but I never got them. Eidan said the department requested records for Holder's cellular phone calls that evening. After 11 p.m., which was about the time of the robbery, there were six phone calls. Quinlan, assistant county prosecutor, pointed out that none of them was to 911 or a police department.