On the afternoon of February 25, 2022, 24-year-old Brittany Lynn Gregory was found unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a parked 2010 Nissan Rogue on the 5000 block of Greer Avenue in the Kingsway West neighborhood of St. Louis. Officers arrived around 3:20 p.m. after reports of a shooting; Gregory had suffered fatal gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say 21-year-old Claytiana L. Bolar was at the scene when officers arrived, agreed to be interviewed, and admitted to shooting Gregory. Investigators determined the women had been in an on-again, off-again romantic relationship and that the shooting occurred during a heated argument inside the parked car. Bolar was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action and ordered held without bond as the case moved forward.

What details about Brittany’s final hours or the relationship would help explain how the argument turned deadly?