A December 2020 domestic shooting in Westminster, Maryland, ended with 49-year-old Stephen Hartman dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. Deputies from the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Marydell Drive on a Saturday afternoon and emergency medical personnel pronounced the victim dead at the scene.

Investigators identified the shooter as the victim’s son, 21-year-old Lucas Hartman. Authorities say Lucas shot his father multiple times with a 9mm handgun and was taken into custody. He was charged with first-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence. Lucas claimed he acted to protect his mother from alleged abuse, a claim the prosecution disputed as unsubstantiated. Lucas Alexander Hartman later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and received a 40-year prison sentence in May 2022.

Did anyone in the Westminster area know the Hartman family or have information about events that led up to that day?