David Edens Jr, 22, was shot and killed on November 19, 2019, at the Motel 6 on Wade Hampton Boulevard in Greenville, South Carolina. He was living at the motel and was found unresponsive inside his room by Greenville County Sheriff’s deputies after reports of a burglary at about 10:35 p.m.; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses said his ex-girlfriend and the mother of his one-year-old daughter, 25-year-old Kodesha Lyuna Bryson, arrived at the motel in an agitated state, was seen smashing motel windows while searching for Edens, and a confrontation inside the room ended with Edens being shot.

Bryson did not stay at the scene but turned herself in the next day and was arrested on charges of murder, possession of a weapon during a violent crime, and malicious damage. At a bond hearing she apologized to Edens’ family and said the gun went off accidentally; bond was denied and she was booked into the Greenville County Detention Center. Family members described Edens as a loving father of two.

What details about the night or witnesses’ accounts might help clarify how the shooting began?