On the night of July 4–5, 2016, a large Fourth of July party at the Snowden Terrace Apartments in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, ended in gunfire that killed 28-year-old Taekwon Commodore of nearby Republic. Reports say an argument broke out after police were called about a burglary and accusations of people being snitches; witnesses describe at least one person firing into the air, then more shots as people ran between the buildings. Commodore was struck in the neck; friends took him to the Brownsville police station, and he was later transported to Uniontown Hospital where he died. The medical cause of death was exsanguination and bilateral hemothorax from a single gunshot wound.

The investigation produced two arrests at different times. Jamal D. Brown, 21 at the time, was initially charged with criminal homicide and other counts but the homicide charge was withdrawn in November 2016 after about four and a half months in custody. In October 2017 O’Shea Carrington Thomas, then 24, was arrested and ordered to stand trial on criminal homicide, conspiracy, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, and tampering with evidence; witnesses at a preliminary hearing described seeing Thomas with a large handgun and hearing statements attributed to him that he thought he had shot someone.

Are there witnesses or neighbors who recall the party that night or who saw people running between the buildings?