He, too, would be pronounced dead at a hospital. “You know how big a casket for a 5-year-old is?” Detective Cedillo would later ask Nixon-Clark in an interview, trying to jolt him into honesty.

On a Sunday in August 2022, Anthony Bell-Johnson and Jay Nixon-Clark got out of a Chevrolet Equinox on a street in a new subdivision in far northwest Fort Worth. They were there at midday to shoot ...