On the afternoon of December 27, 2016, 33-year-old real estate agent Terrell Bruce was shot dead while driving a Ford Expedition through northwest Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood. According to reports, Bruce’s 27-year-old passenger and ex-girlfriend, Martina Westcott, shot him in the head during an argument. The SUV then collided with another vehicle and overturned; witnesses saw a woman run from the crashed vehicle. First responders initially treated the scene as a serious traffic crash before finding Bruce unresponsive with a gunshot wound on the 500 block of West Walnut Lane.

Westcott surrendered to police the next day with her mother and confessed, saying the argument was about having a baby and that she fired after fearing a gun under her foot, intending only to scare him. Prosecutors noted Bruce had broken up with Westcott a week earlier; they also say she discarded a jacket over a bridge and went to her mother’s house after the shooting. Bruce had been active in his community and had founded a foundation in his younger brother Nathaniel Kirkland’s name. Does anyone have additional information about Bruce’s work in the community or about the events leading up to that afternoon?