Left behind with a gravely injured Danny and a stolen gun, Haynes says he and Stackfield concocted a panicked story to stop police from looking for the gun. When police tracked Reeder to her house, she initially told them she hadn't seen anything. It was the same story Ricky was telling others minutes after the shooting and would repeatedly tell police later that evening. Haynes produces the gun, then gives it to Danny. Danny loads it with a single bullet he gets from Haynes.
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He told police he never touched the gun. Edgar Browning, lead detective on the case, has conceded he can't figure out how they could have done so. They all ran their separate ways after the shooting and had no contact with each other after that. The police arrived almost immediately and interrogated everyone separately. And there was no telephone in Stackfield's house for anyone to call to get a story straight.