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Content warning. This episode contains profanity, racism, violence, and murder.

It was a little after 6am on June 6, 2013 in Sacramento, California.

Tucson, Harrison, and Justin Elephant, two young African-American men,

started their day by ducking into her quality in and snagging some of the free food the

health help provided their guests for breakfast. Their next stop was the parking lot of a nearby

McDonald's, where they hoped they could use the food to barter with the eatery's customers.

Somewhere along the line, Harrison at least smokes a methamphetamine. He carried the glass

pipe he used in his backpack. Joseph Paul Leonard, a white man, and his friend Samantha Silva headed

for the McDonald's as well, arriving there in Leonard's truck. Leonard was a mechanic who'd

faced criminal charges in the past for some violent outbursts. His friend Samantha had a mental

disability. It's not clear what Ray she was. They stopped at the restaurant to grab some coffee.

It was a beautiful morning, bright and sunny. Before lunch, one of the four would be gravely,

fatally injured, and another one would be sitting in the back of a cop car,

facing the prospect of never again spending a moment of life outside of police custody.

Their ultimate fate, depending not so much on what happened, but rather on why it happened.

My name is Anya Keane, and I'm Kevin Greenley, and this is The Murder Sheet, a weekly true crime

podcast. Anya and I connected over the Bergerchef murders, a 1978 unsolved case involving the killings

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