A dispute at a house party on Hagen Street in Buffalo on the night of August 4, 2018, ended with Santana Anderson, 26, fatally shot shortly before 11 p.m. First responders took Anderson and another woman—who suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to her legs—to the Erie County Medical Center; Anderson died shortly after arrival. She was the mother of a five-year-old daughter and a two-year-old son.

Authorities charged 31-year-old Lemuele Jackson of Buffalo after investigators concluded the shooting grew out of an earlier dispute involving Jackson’s sister and a group of people. Prosecutors said Jackson fired multiple shots into a crowd outside the party. After a trial that included a mistrial for juror misconduct, a jury convicted Jackson of second-degree murder, reckless endangerment, and criminal possession of a weapon. In February 2020 a judge, calling him a cold-blooded murderer, sentenced Jackson, as a persistent violent felony offender, to 32 years to life in prison.

If anyone was at the Hagen Street party or saw what happened that night, please share what we missed.