A 16-year-old boy from Las Vegas who was charged with murder was released from jail.
Andrea Lafon was shot in the head when she was $5 short during a drug deal where she was purchasing an ounce of marijuana on Sept. 5, reports the Las Vegas Review Journal.
The police's only clue from a witness was a possible name of the alleged gunman: Patrick "too Leivee."
This name led authorities to Patrick Wayne Harper, 16, and one other student who might have witnessed the shooting.
The witness who provided police with the name said she didn't recognize a picture of Harper before he was arrested.
Harper also told police that he was at a convenience store buying a slushie drink at the time of the crime before going to a high school football game. His story was also backed by witnesses including classmates and teachers who saw him at the game, the Review Journal reports.
Although the store that Harper said he was at was two miles away from the scene of the crime, the teen was arrested anyway.
"I'm stressed right now. I'm tired. I can't really get the sleep I want," Harper tells Opposing Views . "The attention I'm getting is not right, and I feel like it shouldn't be focused on me. It should be on the one who actually killed the girl."
Harper was charged with the crime and was expelled from school and spent 13 days behind bars. Half of his time was spent in Clark County Juvenile Justice Services Detention Center, and the other half was spent in the Clark County Detention Center.
Harper was released from jail Tuesday after a surveillance video surfaced of Harper buying the slushie from the store at 7:14 p.m. Lafon was shot at 7:15 p.m. that day.
"In light of this new video that was produced by the defense and submitted to the DA's office, now our detectives are going to have an opportunity to... make that a part of the investigation," North Las Vegas police spokeswoman Aaron Patty tells Review Journal.
Police have no other suspects so far in the case. Investigators are not completely discarding the eyewitness evidence that puts Harper at the scene despite the time stamp on the surveillance video, reports Opposing Views.
"It was impossible for Patrick to have committed this crime," Investigator Toby Tobiasson, working for lawyer Kristina Wildeveld, who got the court order for the surveillance video at the convenience store Harper was in at the time of the crime, tells Review Journal.
