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New details in Thursday night's shooting in Toledo that left one 19-year-old dead and another injured.

Police have not made any arrests since the shots rang out in the 19-hundred block of Fernwood.

However, family, friends, and neighbors of the victims are speaking out.

One man says he tried to save his cousin as he died in his backyard.

Family and friends hold each other after hanging pictures of Deonta Allen at the last spot the 19-year-old was alive.

"It could have been me," says Bryce Robinson, who says he is Allen's cousin.

Thursday night Robinson was on his way out of his house on Waverly to meet Allen, heard gun shots, ran outside, and tried to save Allen as he died in Robinson's backyard.

"Tate never did nothing to nobody, he was a funny, outgoing cat, and it's sad I lost him in my backyard, I was there. I was there when they were signing the time of death," says Robinson.

Police say this all began as a robbery.

Allen and 19-year-old Limmie Reynolds were sitting inside a car in the 19-hundred block of Fernwood when several suspects came up to them, the two got out of the car, and the suspects started shooting.

Reynolds is expected to survive after getting shot in the chest. He was found on a porch down the block on Waverly next door to Pat Coker.

"My husband and I were in the bedroom and we heard the first shot," says Coker. " And then we heard the second shot.  And he said; 'Are you sure that's not a tire?' I said, 'I don't know.'"

 "When I was a senior in high school, they were freshmen," says Markus Hill who went to Rogers High School with Reynolds and Allen.

Hill says they're not the type of guys who would get involved with gangs.

"They never bothered nobody," says Hill. "All the gang related stuff going on over there, they always stayed to themselves over here."

Coker, who has lived in her home for 20 years, says this crime is a shock to her normally quiet neighborhood.  It's a neighborhood she fears is changing.

"It has come to us in the last years, I'd say in the last four, five years, but otherwise it has been quiet, serene, beautiful," says Coker.