Marcus Wesson
When officers arrived at a home in Fresno California on March 12, 2004 they thought they were responding to a simple child custody issue. Two mothers, as well as other family members, were outside the home attempting to get the occupant, Marcus Wesson, to release their children to them. Wesson would come to the door but then would shut the door in the officer's faces. There was likely little the officers could do considering that child custody is a civil matter and it is even more unlikely that the mothers had any sort of official custody order. In cases such as that the police can do little more than file a report but because of the disturbance outside they had to at least hang out a bit longer than they normally would. Citizens and neighbors would later say that soon after Wesson had shut the door they heard gunshots. The officers would claim that they had not heard them and it is unclear as to how many shots were fired. Something else must not h...