On April 22, 2018, 29-year-old Tiffany McKnight of Houston was fatally shot on the 2500 block of Reed Road after an encounter with 29-year-old Dondrick Flagg. McKnight had just returned from a grocery store when Flagg asked to use her cellphone; she refused and a struggle followed. Flagg shot her multiple times, including once in the back, and McKnight was pronounced dead at the scene.

Flagg fled on foot but was quickly apprehended after a brief pursuit in which he discarded a firearm that was later recovered. He was taken into custody wearing two lanyards, one of which contained McKnight’s car keys and a photo of her and a friend. McKnight was a single mother working two jobs while attending school to become a pharmacist and leaves a 9-year-old son; her sister Victoria Burrell was on a FaceTime call and heard McKnight’s final screams for help.

What new information, no matter how small, might help explain why this encounter ended in violence?