Terrance Roberts, 46, was shot and killed on June 18, 2017 while attending an annual Father’s Day barbecue in Albany’s South End that he and his wife, Stephanie Sanders, hosted. A dispute over a child’s request for a drink escalated into a brawl; when Roberts stepped in to shield his wife during a physical altercation between her and another woman, a man later identified as Richard Duckett produced a firearm. Surveillance footage shows Duckett chasing Roberts across a parking lot, attempting to pistol-whip him, dropping and retrieving the gun, shooting Roberts in the side, and then approaching to fire a final, fatal shot to the head before fleeing.

Duckett was located and arrested by U.S. Marshals in Brockport on September 20, 2017. Two family members of Duckett pleaded guilty to felony charges for hindering his prosecution by aiding in his escape. Duckett received a 20 years to life sentence in February 2018. Roberts’ family had already been struck by two earlier homicides in 2012 and 2015, and survivors later left the area because of the trauma.

Did anyone at the barbecue or nearby businesses see the altercation before it turned deadly?