Donald Matthews was shot and killed in Columbus, Georgia, in the early morning of July 22, 2017. He was 26, an African American Specialist in the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Benning who had served a deployment in Afghanistan and worked in human resources. The shooting followed a dispute that began inside a TGI Friday’s restaurant and later continued at the intersection of River Road and Veterans Parkway, where Matthews suffered multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to a hospital in a private vehicle and was pronounced dead at 6:36 a.m.

Investigators identified two suspects in the case. Marcus Theodore Wiggins, 27, was charged with murder and was extradited to Columbus and booked into the Muscogee County Jail; another man, Eddie Clayton, was also arrested in connection with the fatal shooting. Wiggins has said he was physically attacked by Matthews and acted in self-defense. What details about the confrontation at the restaurant and at the intersection might clarify how this dispute turned deadly?