Sheena Marie Day was 24 and working as a teacher when she was shot and killed in her Oxon Hill, Maryland, apartment on the evening of April 13, 2008. Police found her unconscious with a gunshot wound; she was pronounced dead at the scene. A man present at the apartment, Gary Theodore McKinley, was covered in blood when officers arrived and directed a police officer to the location.

McKinley made statements that implicated himself and was arrested, charged with first-degree murder and the use of a handgun in the commission of a violent crime. A psychiatric evaluation found him competent to stand trial. In January 2009 he entered an Alford plea to second-degree murder and the handgun charge; in March 2009 he was sentenced to a total of 50 years in prison, receiving 30 years for the murder and a consecutive 20 years for the handgun offense. A later post-conviction relief appeal filed by McKinley was denied.

Was anyone in Sheena’s circle in Oxon Hill that evening able to clarify what led to the domestic-related incident?