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Shaniece Lenyeh Davis, 27, was shot and killed on July 13, 2016, inside an Oxford Avenue apartment in Hawthorne, California. The apartment was described as a crash pad with frequent disturbances and drug activity; tensions had been rising as the tenant tried to clear people out. An argument that night involved Davis and the tenant, John Thomas McDowell, who had texted his niece, Jennifer Hickman (alias Peaches), asking her to come over.

Hickman arrived armed and became involved in a verbal altercation with Davis that escalated to gunfire. Davis was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced dead. No bystanders came forward to describe the shooting itself. Investigators arrested Hickman on suspicion of murder; a semi-automatic handgun was recovered and submitted for testing. Hickman was charged with murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm and pleaded not guilty at arraignment. McDowell was also arrested but the district attorney declined to file charges and he was released; he was stabbed outside his apartment about a week later.

What details can anyone who knew Shaniece or who was at the apartment that night share about the events leading up to the shooting?