On the evening of April 28, 2020, a verbal dispute on Millington Street in Mount Vernon, New York, escalated into fatal violence. Kashawn Smith, a 28-year-old resident, was shot five times at about 10:00 p.m., with bullets striking his head, chest, torso and back. He was taken to Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Investigators identified 45-year-old John Bobbitt, an acquaintance of Smith, as the suspect. A multi-agency investigation tracked Bobbitt to a relative’s home in Newark, New Jersey, where he was arrested on July 13, 2020, and returned to New York to face charges. He was charged with Murder in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree; a jury found him guilty on both counts on February 7, 2023, and he was sentenced on May 19, 2023, to 25 years to life in state prison.

What details about that April 28 dispute are still unknown to readers or might help explain how it turned deadly?