Our card this week is Ron Harnished, the seven of clubs from California.

22-year-old Ron had survived multiple deployments in the Navy, yet died less than a mile from home on a cool San Diego night in 2006.

Now, almost 19 years later, the police and Ron's own mother believe they know

who's responsible, but proving it has been a challenge, and the people thereafter are as violent as it

gets. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck.

Music I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is the deck. On December 27, 2006, the city of that post-Christmas, the city of San Diego, was in the middle of that post-Christmas glow when a police officer making a routine traffic stop was flagged down by two men who pulled up in a car behind him.

The moment must have been chaotic. I mean, there were bullet holes in the driver's side of the car,

and one of the men appeared to have been wounded in his arm. They told the officer that their friend had

just been shot a few blocks away. He was still lying in the street and needed help quick.

Radioing for more support, police and emergency crews descended near the corner of 30th and C Street, where Ron Harnish

was laying just off the curb with gunshot wounds in his shoulder and head.

I know medics were called to the scene to try to help Ron, and unfortunately they pronounced him

deceased within minutes of arriving. So now it's an official homicide. That's Detective Tracy

Barr of the San Diego Police Department, who is the current investigator working this case.

She explained that when homicide investigators arrived, they didn't have much to work with.

If you look at the scene, there's just minimal evidence. Really the only evidence we have are these shell casings.

There were a total of six 22 caliber casings found.

Other than that, there really wasn't much evidence.

But there were witnesses.

We're going to call them Paul and Aaron to protect their identity.

Those were Ron's two friends who had

flagged down police. Paul, the one with the arm injury, had been transferred to the hospital and

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