On Monday, November 23, 2020, a midday shooting at Johnson’s Beauty and Barber Salon on Eve Street in Augusta, Georgia, left two men dead. Forty-eight-year-old Mequel Darmarcus Freeman, a local barber, was among the victims; the other was 34-year-old Wyman Scott. Deputies who responded to the scene found both men fatally shot, a double homicide that shocked the neighborhood.

The case moved quickly into criminal proceedings. Authorities identified and charged three individuals in connection with the killings. Freeman was remembered by family and friends at a graveside service the following month, described as a husband, father, and son.

What details about the shooting or the victims’ movements that day would help explain what happened inside the barbershop?