Alishah Pointer: The Sentences Don't Match Who Pulled the Trigger | Leverage

Both Things Are True Crime · Nov 4, 2026 · 24m · transcript

Alishah Pointer, 22, was taken in East Cleveland because of who she was dating. She was leverage.

In November 2021, after Aminjas Zion Shomo was shot and killed in Cleveland, a group of people who knew him decided to find the man they believed was involved. They could not find him, so they went for his girlfriend. Alishah was held for more than twenty hours, a photo of her at gunpoint went up on Instagram to draw him out, and days later she was found in the basement of a burned house on Savannah Avenue. Police said they were not even sure she knew anything.

Six people were convicted. Two…