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Jonathan Coleus, a 29-year-old Black man, was fatally shot on July 26, 2020, at a Sunoco gas station on 45th Street in Mangonia Park, West Palm Beach, Florida. Surveillance footage shows a woman, identified as his girlfriend Latisha Latoya Smith, approach Coleus with a gun shortly after 4:30 a.m. The video, as described by investigators, contradicts Smith’s claim that Coleus attacked her and instead depicts her as the aggressor.

Detectives say Coleus was sitting in the driver’s seat of a van when Smith, driving a Volkswagen Passat, blocked the vehicle. She exited with a firearm; Coleus got out and attempted to disarm her, and was shot during the struggle. Smith and another woman fled the scene. Smith was arrested days later and charged with second-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm; she was held without bond pending trial.

Did anyone in the Mangonia Park area see the Passat or the van that morning, or have footage that could shed more light on the moments before the shooting?