Tyra Phillips Womack, 57, was killed on the evening of June 10, 2020, outside her Baltimore home in the Lauraville neighborhood. A longtime gospel radio announcer at WEAA-FM, an administrative assistant for the U.S. Post Office, and an active church member, she was returning from a walk when she encountered her 25-year-old son on the front porch and was struck by multiple gunshots after a dispute with a neighbor. Family say she shielded her son and was taken to a nearby hospital, where she died.

Witnesses identified 56-year-old neighbor Richard Sylvester Green as the shooter. A warrant was issued and Green was arrested on June 16, 2020, and charged with first- and second-degree murder and related offenses. Court proceedings have been complicated by questions about Green’s mental competency; he has been repeatedly found incompetent to stand trial and is under supervision by the Maryland Department of Health while fitness for trial is reassessed.

Does anyone in Lauraville remember the dispute between the neighbors or have information that could shed light on what led to this killing?