A New Year’s celebration on Colorado Street in Columbus, Georgia, ended in fatal violence on the early morning of January 1, 2018. Sixty-three-year-old Nancy Pearl Johnson was shot and killed at a party; her daughter was wounded in the same incident. A dispute at the gathering escalated into gunfire, turning a holiday event into a scene of tragedy.

Authorities investigated and arrested a man in connection with the deadly shooting, removing an immediate suspect from the scene. The family’s loss and the daughter’s injuries remained at the center of the community’s shock.

Did anyone at the party or neighbors on Colorado Street see anything that could help explain how the dispute began?