On the morning of September 23, 2021, 39-year-old Antonio Mason was shot through the front door of a home on Woodliff Street in Macon, Georgia. Emergency responders took him to Atrium Health Navicent after a 12:27 a.m. 911 call, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital. Investigators traced the shooting to 36-year-old Michael Jerome Maxwell, who turned himself in that afternoon and was initially charged with murder.

Deputies drove him to his sister’s home, where Mason lived. Maxwell slept on the sofa; when Mason returned from work and tried to enter, Maxwell pushed the door closed and then fired one shot through the door, striking Mason in the chest. Maxwell fled but later surrendered.

Court filings say Maxwell later pled guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter and Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony and was sentenced under a plea agreement. What details about the night or about Mason’s activities beforehand might help clarify what happened?