On the evening of June 1, 2015, 24-year-old Mariam Folashade Adebayo, known as Shade, was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Target in Germantown, Maryland. A recent University of Maryland public health graduate who had just started a job in Columbia, she had arranged to meet her recent ex-boyfriend, 27-year-old Donald Wayne Bricker Jr., to talk. Witnesses saw a heated argument in a vehicle; Adebayo exited to get away and Bricker followed with a handgun. He shot her, then walked closer and shot her again. She was taken to a hospital and died of her injuries.

Bricker fled in a white Ford Ranger pickup but was located after an off-duty officer spotted the truck. A roughly 25-minute pursuit ended when the truck crashed; Bricker was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and arrested. A gun was recovered from his vehicle. Bricker was charged with first-degree murder and later sentenced to life without parole; the firearm used was an antique black powder replica purchased online.

Did anyone who knew Shade or saw the scene that night notice anything that could help explain how the meeting escalated?