Anthony Lamont Howie, 33, was shot and killed on August 18, 2015, in the Grier Heights neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. Emergency medical services pronounced him dead at the scene after he was found suffering from a gunshot wound. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department opened an immediate investigation.

Police say the shooting followed a domestic altercation between Howie and his girlfriend, 22-year-old Shirley Takeisha Martin. Martin was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. After the shooting she allegedly attempted to flee with two small children in her vehicle; officers pursued and apprehended her at her residence. The children were injured during the pursuit.

Martin was charged with first-degree murder, two counts of child abuse, failure to heed blue light and siren, operating a motor vehicle to elude arrest, resisting, obstructing and delaying an officer, and cited for failing to properly secure the children in child passenger restraint systems. Does anyone have information about the events that led up to the altercation in Grier Heights?