Lacy Rae King, 32, of West Chester, Ohio, was killed on July 29, 2017, after a confrontation at Joe’s Drive-Thru in Lockland. A verbal dispute between King and her passengers and another group inside the drive-thru escalated into a physical fight. During the altercation, 42-year-old Tiffany E. Smith of Lockland produced a handgun, struck King multiple times in the head with it, and then shot her in the upper body.

King was taken to the Reading Police Department and then transported to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. Smith was arrested at the scene and charged with one count of murder; she was held at the Hamilton County Justice Center awaiting arraignment. Investigators from the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, the Village of Lockland Police Department, the Southwest Ohio Violent Crime Task Force, and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigations worked the case, with authorities exploring the possibility of additional charges.

Are there witnesses or anyone with information about what led to the fight at the drive-thru?