Edwin Estrada, a 27-year-old Marine Corporal from Los Angeles stationed with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464, was shot and killed in Wilmington, North Carolina, on November 19, 2017. Estrada was on leave for the Marine Ball and had been heavily intoxicated after visiting several downtown bars. He mistakenly knocked on the rear door of a North Front Street residence occupied by Stephen Roger Hughes II, a former police officer and Navy veteran, who was inside working on a fish tank.

Hughes opened the rear door after hearing loud banging, grabbed a pistol from a shelf, and pointed it at Estrada, demanding he leave. Estrada reportedly lunged at Hughes; Hughes fired two shots. One entered Estrada’s cheek and exited the back of his neck, the other entered the back of his neck and traveled upward into his head, causing his death. The District Attorney, Ben David, declined to file charges, citing North Carolina’s Defense of Habitation Law, and the case was closed after investigations by the Wilmington Police Department and military authorities.

Did anyone witness Estrada before he knocked on the door, or see what happened outside the house that night?