little kevin is always asking, when is my daddy going to come back from heaven? >> ardine rice told police that kevin got a phone call just after midnight. it was from the man who was laying carpet in their new house, the one they were moving into the very next morning. >> apparently, there was a problem with the carpet. i don't know what the problem was. so kevin left to go over to the new house to check out what the problem was. >> the carpet layer told police kevin stopped by, told them what he wanted done and left. >> he was gone for about an hour. and when he was driving down the street where he was staying at the time, that's when he encountered his attackers. >> shell casings at the scene indicated he had been shot with .380-caliber weapon. the witness reported seeing a man in a dark hooded sweatshirt running away from the area. police had to consider the possibility that the phone call from the carpet layer might have been a setup. >> pretty short order. there was a grim determination on the part of the officers to go about the business of finding out who had done this