On the evening of July 27, 2015, 81-year-old Mildred Martin was sitting on her screened-in porch on Proctor Street in northwest Atlanta playing cards with neighbors when a stray bullet passed through the screen and struck her in the back, killing her. The shot came during gunfire exchanged nearby and investigators estimated the fatal round was fired from roughly 150 yards away. She had lived in the same home about 30 years and was known in the neighborhood as Ms. Mildred, remembered for her kindness and for helping others with food and water.

The Atlanta Police Department investigated and identified suspects quickly. On July 30, 2015, officers arrested Johnny Maurice Avery. On August 4, 2015, Dominique Lamonta Bryant was taken into custody by the APD Fugitive Unit with assistance from the U.S. Marshals South East Regional Fugitive Task Force. Both men were charged with felony murder and later indicted by a Fulton County grand jury on murder, aggravated assault, and weapons counts in October 2015.

What details about that night or the neighborhood might help explain how gunfire traveled into a screened porch?