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Genevive Ann Dawes was 21 and from Dallas when she was shot and killed on January 18, 2017, during a police encounter over a reported suspicious, stolen vehicle. Officers Christopher Hess and Jason Kimpel approached a car in which Dawes and her boyfriend, Virgilio Rosales, were inside and ordered them out.

Body camera footage later showed Dawes and Rosales sleeping in the car when officers arrived and suggested the vehicle was not moving at high speed when shots were fired, contradicting officers’ initial accounts and prompting scrutiny. A Dallas County grand jury indicted Officer Hess on aggravated assault by a public servant; no charges were recommended against Kimpel. The family, represented by civil rights attorney Daryl Washington, said they wanted murder charges and disputed official statements about Dawes, including a claim she was five months pregnant.

Does anyone have additional context about the scene that night or knew Genevive’s movements leading up to January 18, 2017?