On June 25, 2019, a verbal dispute in North Nashville’s 1900 block of Salem Mason Drive escalated into gunfire that killed 21-year-old William Summers Jr. Witnesses said Summers had been arguing with at least one individual before the shooting; initial descriptions named two Black men, one with short twists in his hair. Metro’s North Precinct detectives identified two teenagers in connection with the argument and the shooting.

On July 3, 2019, 18-year-old Blessing Burks was arrested and charged with criminal homicide and the use of a gun in the commission of a felony and was held without bond. A second suspect, 17-year-old Kenneth Dyer, surrendered on July 11, 2019, and was also charged with criminal homicide.

What details about that evening might help explain how the argument turned deadly?