Two Black moms say police won’t solve their children’s murders. A new study asks: is race to blame?

A report in the journal Criminology shows that homicide cases are less likely to be solved when the victim is Black

For nearly a decade, Nicole Gardner would tense up any time someone asked: How many kids do you have?"

Her daughter Ronique Gardner Williams was shot and killed in 2015 while riding in a car in Richmond, California. Seven years later, her eldest son, Damon Gardner Isles, died following a seizure, but he had also been shot years before in Boston. Though her children died under different circumstances, they shared one tragic commonality: neither had received justice as the victims of gun violence.