On February 25, 2015, 61-year-old Dennis Perks was fatally shot in his home in Gates, New York. The Gates Police Department’s investigation treated the case as a domestic-related shooting. Evidence at the scene and subsequent inquiries led investigators to the person who had been his fiancée and with whom he lived.

Authorities arrested the fiancée the day after the shooting and charged her with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. Prosecutors proceeded to trial, and a jury found her guilty. The court later imposed a sentence for her role in Perks’s death.

What do readers remember about Dennis Perks or the neighborhood in Gates around that time?