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Gabrielle D. Rhodes Jr., 24, was shot dead on the evening of April 25, 2016, at the Deerfield Apartment Complex on the 1500 block of Sylvan Lane in Columbia, Missouri. Multiple callers reported gunfire just before 7:45 p.m.; officers found Rhodes with an apparent gunshot wound and medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene. Witnesses described chaos and people running through the complex after the shots.

Police traced earlier events that same day to a dispute at the Boone County Courthouse and a separate shooting near the Highway 63 and I-70 connector that injured two people. Three men — Johnathan Banks, Joseph Luckett, and Lajuan Martin — were taken into custody at the Sylvan Lane scene and later charged in connection with the connector shooting, but authorities did not file charges against them for Rhodes’ death. Orlando Turner was arrested the day after the homicide on suspicion of unlawful use of a weapon; police said he admitted being at the scene minutes before the fatal shooting.

Did anyone see or hear details that could clarify how Rhodes was killed or who fired the fatal shot?