Breaking down what little is known about the 2018 shooting.
1. Nicholas S. Diggs, Kendall D. Morris, and suspect #2 (S2) were out celebrating a birthday together. They went to several clubs before going to Dallas Caberet. Joshua Brown was not with them.
2. At some point Diggs & Morris & S2 went to
a club where Brown was, possibly already with some friends or maybe not.
3. At some point after that, Diggs, Morris and S2 went to the Dallas Caberet club in Walnut Ridge. Brown did not travel with them.
4. Brown and friends also went to the Caberet club, or Brown met up with friends at the club.
5. Suspect #2 went into the club saying the "murder rate is about to go up...."
(So, S2 possibly went into the club looking for Brown, who was already there, or he went looking for trouble and found Brown).
6. "S2 waited outside the club to fight Brown."
(Not enough information provided to know if Brown knew S2, and if so how well, or whether Brown knew S2 was waiting for him outside, or why S2 wanted to "fight" Brown, if that's even accurate. Who would have told LE about S2 the unnamed's intent?
Kinda odd anyway, imo, to start off with a fistfight if S2 was already talking murder and Morris seemed prepared to whip out a gun).
7. Brown "fought with" suspect #2 in the street.
(Not enough info provided to know what "fighting" means. Did S2 attack and Brown defend? Was S2 trying to rob Brown and didn't succeed?)
8. " Brown and friends tried to leave."
(It isn't Brown who is interested in escalation).
9. Morris reached into a car, pulled out a gun, but didn't use it himself. Instead, he handed the gun to S2.
(It's S2 and only S2 targeting Brown, for whatever reason).
10. S2 begins shooting. Brown is shot in the foot. Diggs is killed.
(Nothing indicates that Diggs was the target. Brown was. Diggs had to have been fairly close to Brown to have been accidentally shot).
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That is all the info that's been at least somewhat vetted, by a journalist, as opposed to the 2nd and 3rd hand and maybe no hand at all info put out by Merritt, including the unsubstantiated claim that Brown knew/grew up with Diggs, S2, or Morris.
