CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Inside the Mecklenburg County jail on Monday, Demetrius Montgomery spent more than an hour with his public defender, Jean Lawson.

Across town Eugene Fuller tinkered with his girlfriend's car and recalled the last time he saw Montgomery, moments after two police officers were slain.

"He was running, holding (a) gun," Fuller said.

Fuller spoke just a few feet away from a makeshift memorial that's piled up on the spot where Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officers Jeff Shelton and Sean Clark were killed. Investigators say Montgomery shot them both from behind.

Neighbors are still rearranging flowers and mementos more than a week after the shootings, and although they want to know more about the police investigation, it's unlikely any official explanations are on the way.

District Attorney Peter Gilchrist confirmed that he has instructed Charlotte-Mecklenburg police to release no more information about the case against Montgomery and the investigation that surrounds it.

Gilchrist says talking about whether the murder weapon has been found or whether police are still looking for it, or even whether Montgomery's hands have been tested for gunshot residue, could hurt the investigation.

James Wyatt, who defended the man convicted of killing Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Deputy Anthony Stancill in 1998, says releasing too much information can make it hard to find an impartial jury later on.

"It's not the right time and place for all of the information to be released now," Wyatt said. "Some of it may be incorrect; some of it may be premature."

None of those reasons ease the grief felt for the officers killed or quenches the community's thirst for answers about how and why they died.

Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory has planned a trip to Raleigh on Tuesday and he says much of his focus will be on how the justice system will handle the case. It's part of the mayor's ongoing crusade for more district attorneys and more jail space so that fewer cases are dismissed.

This will be the mayor's second trip in his campaign against crime. Hundreds of residents traveled to Raleigh with him in February to ask for more jail space, prosecutors and judges, for police to have more access to schools, for business owners to have more of a voice when their customers are victimized and for more laws punishing gang crimes.

House members said then it's important to remember they are working on a budget for the entire state and they will also have to look at education, Medicaid and other needs.

Eyewitness News will have complete coverage of the mayor's trip on the air and on WSOCTV.com.