On the morning of September 28, 2017, 30-year-old Christopher N. Chris Grover was found shot in the head at point-blank range while sleeping on the couch in the Poughkeepsie apartment he shared with his girlfriend, Nicole Nikki Addimando. Grover was a popular gymnastics coach in the community; the single gunshot ended his life and sparked a high-profile investigation and trial.

Addimando did not deny firing the shot and said she acted in self-defense after years of escalating physical and sexual abuse by Grover, a claim friends and advocates supported with accounts of prior injuries. Law enforcement investigators reported inconsistencies in her account and said there was insufficient corroboration of the alleged abuse. Prosecutors contended the killing was intentional and planned.

In April 2018 a Dutchess County jury convicted Nicole Addimando of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon and she was sentenced to 19 years to life. What details from that night remain unclear?