In the pre-dawn hours of July 22, 2020, a dispute inside a home on Forestay Court in the Battery Point subdivision on Whitemarsh Island, Savannah, ended with 34-year-old Samantha Courtney Sams shot and killed. Chatham County Police responded at about 4 a.m. and investigators described the incident as not random; Sams and 34-year-old Christopher Hall were acquaintances and witnesses reported a heated argument between them.

Hall was injured during the altercation, taken to a hospital, and then placed in police custody. After his release from medical care he was booked into the Chatham County Detention Center and charged initially with aggravated battery; prosecutors later upgraded charges to include felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm during the commission of an aggravated assault. Sams was remembered by family and friends at funeral services held in the days after her death.

Are there details about the timeline that anyone in the area recalls that could help clarify what happened that morning?